Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

10.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

11.

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

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

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.

14.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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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.

18.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

21.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

25.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

27.

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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

30.

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

32.

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

A Course In Miracles

34.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

35.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Amis, Martin

44.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

45.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Anton Chekhov

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan