Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is produced by war.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Peace

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

10.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

11.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

12.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

14.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

19.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

20.

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

25.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

28.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

30.

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

32.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

33.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

42.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William