Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

peace

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

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.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

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

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

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

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

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

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Peace without justice is tyranny.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Give peace a chance.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

I believe it is peace in our time.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

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

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

Let us have peace.

Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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

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

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

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

Peace is produced by war.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

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

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

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

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

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

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Peace begins with a smile.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Capitalism is war socialism is peace.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

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

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

If you want peace work for justice.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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

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

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Peace is its own reward.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

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

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Making peace is harder than making war.

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

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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

The purpose of all war is peace.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.