Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Moore, Marianne

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Muste, A. J.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Milton, John

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Amis, Martin

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

18.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Nicols, Peter

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

27.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

28.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Proverb, Turkish

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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

39.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

40.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin