Peace Quotes

To insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.

Barry Goldwate

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Henry Kissinge

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

Aesop

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.

Cenotaph in Hiroshima

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

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

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Mille

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.

George Melton

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 visits not the guilty mind.

Juvenal

There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non - Violence in Peace and War".

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Kelle

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

And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Bible

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

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

Jeff Melvoin

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitze

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

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

Working in the garden... gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Ruth Stout

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Julius K. Nyerere

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

American Prove

Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.

Juvenal

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