Motivational Quotes

Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

10.

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.

11.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

12.

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

13.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

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

Proverb, Turkish

16.

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

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

21.

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

Peter McWilliams

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

25.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

28.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

29.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

30.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

35.

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

36.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

37.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

38.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

41.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar