Peace Quotes

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

"In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land"

William Pennington, Politician

"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, Diplomat

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

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

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

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

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

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

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

William Hazlitt, Critic

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War"

George Washington, President

"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"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, Director

"So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

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

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience"

Thomas Merton, Author

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

Thomas Merton, Author

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things"

Adam Smith, Economist

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

George Eliot, Author

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"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"

Alfred Nobel, Scientist

"It is far easier to make war than peace"

Georges Clemenceau, Leader

"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you"

St. Jerome, Saint

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

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace"

Buddha, Leader

"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, Leader

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

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind"

Buddha, Leader

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace"

Buddha, Leader

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

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

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

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"A bad peace is even worse than war"

Tacitus, Historian

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

Mother Teresa, Leader

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between"

Mother Teresa, Leader

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