Peace Quotes

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.