Motivational Quotes

Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Truman, Harry S

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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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

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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

Muste, A. J.

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Steiner, George

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]