Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- O'Connor, Basil

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Nicols, Peter

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

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

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Thomson, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Anton Chekhov

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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

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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

Washington, George

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

Milton, John

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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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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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