Peace Quotes
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.Virginia Woolf
Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".
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
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
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.Woodrow Wilson
Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.Cenotaph in Hiroshima
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.Larry Eisenberg
But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.D. H. Lawrence
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
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.George Melton
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.American Prove
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.Hannah Whitall Smith
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.Helen Kelle
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
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.William F. Claire
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.Author Unknown
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .Phylos the Tibetan
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
To secure peace is to prepare for war.Carl von Clausewitz
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.
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
All we are saying is give peace a chance.John Lennon
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.Melody Beattie
The triumph of justice is the only peace.Robert Green Ingersoll
