Motivational Quotes

Peace

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

- Murry, John Middleton

Best Quotes about Peace

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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

Muste, A. J.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

10.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

11.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

12.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

17.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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Murry, John Middleton

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

Nicols, Peter

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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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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Unesco

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bible

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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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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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

45.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore