Peace Quotes
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
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.Dorothy Thompson
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.Alice Walke
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.Susan Partnow
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.Malcolm X
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.Calvin Coolidge
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin America
To secure peace is to prepare for war.Carl von Clausewitz
The absence of war is not peace.Harry S Truman
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
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
The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.Brian Wilson
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.David Borenstein
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.Marvin Gaye
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.Jawaharlal Nehru
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Pope John XXIII
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.Martin Luthe
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
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
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.Benjamin Franklin
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.Bible, Isaiah 32: 17
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.Gersonides
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.Patanjali
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
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
There is no way to peace peace is the way.A. J. Muste
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.Eddie Myers
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.Thomas Jefferson
