Peace Quotes
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
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
Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.Julia Louise Woodruff
The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness humility and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.Stephen Shobe
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
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations... is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.Jimmy Carte
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
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
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.Thomas Jefferson
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.Eve Denise Curie
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.David Dean Rusk
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.Joseph Conrad
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.Anton Chekhov, 1897
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.Mahatma Gandhi, "Non - Violence in Peace and War".
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.David Borenstein
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.George Melton
The absence of war is not peace.Harry S Truman
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.Albert Einstein
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.Hannah Whitall Smith
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.William Blake
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.John Lennon, Imagine
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
