Quotes About Peace
1. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
2. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi
3. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa
4. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. 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. – John Lennon
6. Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa
7. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – John F. Kennedy
8. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. – Carlos Santana
10. 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. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. – Muhammad Ali
13. A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare
14. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. – Nelson Mandela
15. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. – Thomas Jefferson
16. He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. – Benjamin Franklin
17. A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan
19. Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. – Benjamin Franklin
20. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. – Mahatma Gandhi
21. Peace is its own reward. – Mahatma Gandhi
22. It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. – John F. Kennedy
23. 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. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
24. The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. – Joan Jett
26. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. – Nelson Mandela
27. We make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle
28. Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen. – Marianne Williamson
29. I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. – Nelson Mandela
30. Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. – William Hazlitt
31. I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. – Isabel Allende
32. Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind. – Sydney Madwed
33. Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. – George Bernard Shaw
34. You cannot find peace by avoiding life. – Virginia Woolf
35. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. – J. Donald Walters
36. One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. – Morihei Ueshiba
37. War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. – H. L. Mencken
38. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. – Napoleon Bonaparte
40. It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. – Thomas Fuller
41. I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live. – Godfrey Reggio
42. Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
43. 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. – Andre Gide
44. Peace is liberty in tranquillity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
45. 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. – Dag Hammarskjold
46. The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life. – Peace Pilgrim
47. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. – Swami Sivananda
48. For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. – Irving Babbitt
49. To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. – Peace Pilgrim
50. Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. – Friedrich Schiller
51. People always make war when they say they love peace. – David Herbert Lawrence
52. The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. – Arthur Henderson
53. I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. – Georges Clemenceau
54. It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. – Arthur Henderson
55. Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. – John Greenleaf Whittier
56. Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. – John Andrew Holmes
57. The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. – Silvia Cartwright
58. I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace. – Garrett Morris
59. The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country. – Zinedine Zidane
60. I declare that I will establish peace in this world. – Prem Rawat
62. Peace is the first thing the angels sang. – John Keble
63. Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by. – Maria Schell
64. You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace. – Geraldine Ferraro
65. The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. – Tony Snow
66. This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future. – Mark Kennedy
67. Power to the peaceful! – Michael Franti
68. The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. – James Montgomery
69. One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. – Daniel Berrigan
70. Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. – Dorothy Thompson
71. We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. – Black Kettle
72. One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. – David Borenstein
73. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. – Buddha
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