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

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

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

Moore, Marianne

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Thant, U.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Dayan, Moshe

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

18.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

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

Amis, Martin

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Washington, George

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

Peter McWilliams

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

43.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Jerrold, Douglas William