Quotes about peace

"When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on peace
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"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."

Lennon, John on peace
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"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."

Lennon, John on peace
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"All we are saying is give peace a chance..."

Lennon, John on peace   

"Live and let live is the rule of common justice."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on peace   

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

Lincoln, Abraham on peace
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"I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on peace
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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves."

Maslow, Abraham H. on peace
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"Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war."

Mckinley, William on peace   

"Let the ideas clash but not the hearts."

Mehta, C. C. on peace
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"One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?"

Meyer, Michael Holmboe on peace   

"Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war."

Milton, John on peace   

"War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized."

Moore, Marianne on peace   

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

Mother Teresa on peace
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"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."

Mother Teresa on peace
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"If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality."

Murry, John Middleton on peace   

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

Muste, A. J. on peace
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"The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on peace
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"What we need is a generation of peace."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on peace   

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

Nicols, Peter on peace
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"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."

Nixon, Richard M. on peace   

"Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way."

Nyerere, Julius Kambarge on peace   

"The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies."

O'Connor, Basil on peace   

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

Pilgrim, Peace on peace
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"No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family."

Pilgrim, Peace on peace
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"World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it"

Pilgrim, Peace on peace
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"We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it."

Pilgrim, Peace on peace   

"This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."

Pilgrim, Peace on peace   

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

Pilgrim, Peace on peace   

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

Pope John XXIII on peace
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"If you want peace work for justice."

Pope Paul VI on peace   

"If you wish for peace be ready for war."

Proverb on peace
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"When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere."

Proverb on peace
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"Nonviolence is the supreme law of life."

Proverb, Indian on peace   

"Peace with a club in hand is war."

Proverb, Portuguese on peace   

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

Proverb, Turkish on peace
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"The peace dividend is peace."

Quayle, Dan on peace   

"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."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on peace   

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on peace
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

Roosevelt, Theodore on peace
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