Top 100 Quotes About Peace
#1. An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil,
because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing.
Toba Beta
#2. I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years, they have to stop. You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world.
Madonna Ciccone
#3. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
#4. To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky
#5. 28Just leave in peace the one who waits in silence, patiently bearing the burden of God; 29Just don't interfere if he falls, gape-mouthed in the dust. There may well be hope yet. 30Just let him offer his cheek when struck. Let him be the butt of jokes.
Anonymous
#6. Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
Gaston Bachelard
#7. The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
Immanuel Kant
#8. The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.
Cesar Chavez
#9. We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.
Nelson Mandela
#10. We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#11. Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
Baudouin Of Belgium
#12. Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?
Aung San Suu Kyi
#13. What are world needs is not more violence, hatred and injustice that keeps consuming mankind but love,peace and justice for all of humanity to bask in.
Timothy Pina
#14. Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.
Sai Baba
#16. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
Dalai Lama
#17. Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#18. I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.
Craig Armstrong
#19. Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#20. How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.
Paul Monette
#21. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy.
Nicholas Sparks
#22. I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this - such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.
Tessa Emily Hall
#23. If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with ... and then spread and radiate peace and love.
Rajneesh
#24. It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#25. Warmakers are often wrong ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic
David Cortright
#26. Displays of weapons will not be able to bring peace, only displays of love and understanding can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#27. We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
Allan Lokos
#28. Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.
H.W.L. Poonja
#29. Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions.
Seth
#30. When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.
Richard Gere
#31. Receive this blessing as you go forth this day: "May the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; may the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace." Numbers 6:24
Anonymous
#32. Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.
Timothy Zahn
#33. True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
Jane Addams
#34. Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
John Of The Cross
#35. My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time ... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Neville Chamberlain
#36. Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.
Isaac Hecker
#37. Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.
Simon Critchley
#38. Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.
Jean Vanier
#39. Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.
Gilad Atzmon
#40. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
#41. Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
Lao-Tzu
#42. I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
Hammurabi
#44. I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'
Jenny McCarthy
#45. Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.
M.J. Ryan
#46. Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
Ellen Key
#47. In omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi in hoexkens ende boexkens"
"I have sought everywhere for peace, but I have found it not save in a little nook and in a little book.
Thomas A Kempis
#48. It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin Bevan
#49. Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.
George W. Bush
#50. And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings ...
W.B.Yeats
#51. Here's a big lesson: The secret of passion is purpose. Once you find your calling - that compelling cause that you can give your life over to - your heart will begin to sing, and you'll have more passion, power, and inner peace than you ever could have imagined. Discovering
Robin S. Sharma
#52. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
Frank Herbert
#53. All religions proclaim the advantages of peace, loving one another, and "doing to others what we would like them to do to us."
Thomas Keating
#54. THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
Morihei Ueshiba
#55. Don't let any tragic event or any people pull you away from the path of peace. Be strong and attract others to your path toward peace.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.
Charles Dickens
#57. A bad peace is even worse than war.
Tacitus
#58. 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
#59. We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.
Ron Paul
#60. Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.
John F. Kennedy
#61. If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.
Pope Francis
#62. The pain does not bring perfection because the pain is from Satan. The Great Divine Reality is happiness, peace, abundance and perfection. The Great Reality can't create the pain. What is perfect can't create pain. What is perfect only conceives happiness.
Samael Aun Weor
#63. There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
George Eliot
#65. Peace has gone on too long. Something inside me says that trouble such as these shores have never known is headed our way.
Brian Jacques
#66. Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.
Elihu Burritt
#67. In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.
Ram Dass
#68. And that leaves you with an interesting choice ... Do you sacrifice you own happiness and feelings of peace in order to have this relationship, or do you start to get well and choose a real life ... ?
Nic Sheff
#69. I somehow see what's beautiful in things that are ephemeral, I'm my only friend of mine and love is just a peace of time in the world
Zooey Deschanel
#70. To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Sarojini Naidu
#71. I speak of a Canada where men and women of aboriginal ancestry, of French and British heritage, of the diverse cultures of the world, demonstrate the will to share this land in peace, in justice and with mutual respect.
Pierre Trudeau
#72. The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. ("Fear")
P.C. Wren
#73. We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. Peace and rest at length have come
All the day's long toil is past,
And each heart is whispering, 'Home,
Home at last.
Thomas Hood
#76. It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter
#77. The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#78. Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.
Mary Shelley
#79. If you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#80. Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
Rakim
#81. Love breeds tolerance, tolerance breeds peace ... Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know how.
Neale Donald Walsch
#82. War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!
Pope Francis
#84. Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs
Silius Italicus
#85. All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.
Dalai Lama
#86. We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.
Joseph Stalin
#87. Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
Aberjhani
#88. You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!
Manuela George-Izunwa
#90. As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation
Pope Benedict XVI
#91. I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
Stockard Channing
#92. If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.
Thomas Jefferson
#93. Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There
Penelope Wilcock
#95. I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.
Johnny Depp
#97. Keep the peace of the kingdoms, keep the peace of the kingdoms. Bring the end of war. Let there be no empire to disturb us all. Look after the Father. Keep the peace of the kingdoms.
Philip Dodd
#98. No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
Menachem Begin
#99. Nothing can destroy your inner peace except your uncontrolled thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
