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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Amis, Martin

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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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.

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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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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Buddha

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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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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Truman, Harry S

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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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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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

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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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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