Peace Quotes

Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

I Ching

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luthe

The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.

Lester Bowles Pearson

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

Croesus of Lydia

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

I define joy as a sustained sense of well - Being and internal peace - A connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Eve Denise Curie

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Author Unknown

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - - we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleano

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.

John Russell

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Alan John Percivale Taylo

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.

Paul Liu

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Fridjof Nansen

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop