Quotes about peace

"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."

Roosevelt, Theodore on peace   

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

Ruskin, John on peace
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"This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind."

Russell, Bertrand on peace   

"Peace is more precious than a piece of land."

Sadat, Anwar on peace   

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

Sandburg, Carl on peace
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"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on peace   

"When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand."

Schucman, Helen on peace
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"There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy."

Serling, Rod on peace   

"A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."

Shakespeare, William on peace   

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous"

Shaw, George Bernard on peace   

"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear."

Smiles, Samuel on peace   

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on peace   

"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."

Steiner, George on peace   

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on peace   

"They make a wilderness and call it peace."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on peace   

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

Thant, U. on peace   

"Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace."

Theresa of Lisieux, St. on peace   

"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions."

Thích Nhat Hanh on peace   

"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace."

Thomson, James on peace   

"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."

Truman, Harry S on peace   

"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 out our differences."

Truman, Harry S on peace
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"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed."

Unesco on peace   

"Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy."

Unknown, Source on peace   

"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement."

Unknown, Source on peace
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"The best way to end a war is not to begin it."

Unknown, Source on peace   

"Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun."

Unknown, Source on peace   

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

Unknown, Source on peace   

"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading."

Unknown, Source on peace   

"Maintain peace with men, war with their vices."

Unknown, Source on peace   

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

Washington, George on peace
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."

Washington, George on peace   

"Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on peace   

"Peace is our gift to each other."

Wiesel, Elie on peace
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"Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other."

Wiesel, Elie on peace   

"It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on peace   

"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."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on peace   

"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."

Woolf, Virginia on peace   

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."

Zedong, Mao on peace   

"Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or highroad to the soul's destination."

Campbell, Joseph on peace
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"There hasn't been peace on earth because people cant seem to figure out that the real enemy is the people manipulating world events from behind the scenes for their own selfish interests. "

Dye, James on peace