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peace quotes


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


Right human relations is the only true peace.
?Alice A. Bailey


Seek peace, and pursue it.
Proverbs 34:14
?Bible


The peace makers shall be
called the children of God.
?Bible


In truth, to attain to interior peace,
one must be willing to pass through
the contrary to peace.
Such is the teaching of the Sages.
?Swami Brahmanada


Don't tell me peace has broken out.
?Bertolt Brecht


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


Every kind of peaceful cooperation among
men is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
?Albert Einstein


For peace of mind, we need to resign
as general manager of the universe.
?Larry Eisenberg


There never was a good war or a bad peace.
?Benjamin Franklin


A peace that comes from fear and not
from the heart is the opposite of peace.
?Gersonides


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


Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles
and it will only perish though eternal peace.
?Adolf Hitler


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


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


To get Peace you must work for Justice.
?John Paul VI


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


Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
?Martin Luther King Jr.


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


There is no way to peace.
Peace is the way.
?A. J. Muste


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


The greatest honor history can
bestow is that of peacemaker.
?Richard M. Nixon


The world cannot continue to wage
war like physical giants and to seek
peace like intellectual pygmies.
?Basil O'Connor


One little person, giving all of her time to
peace, makes news. Many people, giving
some of their time, can make history.
?Peace Pilgrim


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


Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
?Indian Proverb


Peace with a club in hand is war.
?Portuguese Proverb


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


If we want a free and peaceful world,
if we want to make the deserts bloom
and man grow to greater dignity
as a human being-we can do it.
?Eleanor Roosevelt


Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
?Anwar Sadat


Peace is the one condition of
survival in this nuclear age.
?Adlai E. Stevenson


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


Since wars begin in the minds of men,
it is in the minds of men that the
defenses of peace must be constructed.
?Unesco


Peace is the deliberate adjustment
of my life to the will of God.
?Anonymous


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


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.
?Woodrow T. Wilson


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


All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner;
but they disbelieve the other nations's professions,
rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
?Oscar W. Firkins


But then peace, peace! I am so
mistrustful of it: so much afraid
that it means a sort of
weakness and giving in.
?D. H. Lawrence


Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing
to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
?John Andrew Holmes


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


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


It is understanding that gives us an ability to
have peace. When we understand the other
fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours,
then we can sit down and work our differences.
?Harry S. Truman


The more we sweat in peace
the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit


Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson


Peace and justice are two
sides of the same coin.
?Dwight D. Eisenhower


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


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


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