Motivational Quotes

Peace

Please, we can get along here.

- King, Rodney

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

Proverb, Turkish

19.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

20.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

28.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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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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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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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Bible

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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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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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Washington, George

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

Muste, A. J.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.