Quotes about peace

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

— A Course In Miracles

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

— James Allen

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

— Martin Amis

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

— Marcus Aurelius

Right human relations is the only true peace.

— Alice A. Bailey

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

— Bernard M. Baruch

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

— Bible

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

— Bible

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

— Bible

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

— Bible

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

— Bible

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

— Bible

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

— Ambrose Bierce

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

— Omar Nelson Bradley

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

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

— Vera Brittain

He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

— Buddha

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

— Albert Camus

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

— St. Catherine of Genoa

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

— Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

— Grover Cleveland

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.

— Joseph Conrad

Peace is produced by war.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Moshe Dayan

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

— Henry Van Dyke

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

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

— T. S. Eliot

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

— Black Elk

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

— St. Francis of Assisi

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

— Borman Frank

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

— Benjamin Franklin

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

— Robert Fulghum

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

— Thomas Fuller

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

— William E. Gladstone

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

— James Keir Hardie

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

— William Hazlitt

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

— Ben Hecht

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

— George Herbert

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

— Napoleon Hill

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Kin Hubbard

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

— Kin Hubbard

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

— Dean William R. Inge

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

— Thomas Jefferson

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

— Douglas William Jerrold

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

— John Paul VI

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

— Helen Keller

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

— Thomas Kempis

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

— Thomas Kempis

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

— Thomas Kempis

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

— John F. Kennedy

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

— John F. Kennedy

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

— Charles F. Kettering

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

Please, we can get along here.

— Rodney King

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

— J. Martin Kohe

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

— John Lennon

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.

— John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

— John Lennon

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

— Sir Roger L'Estrange

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Abraham H. Maslow

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.

— William Mckinley

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

— C. C. Mehta

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

— Michael Holmboe Meyer

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

— John Milton

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

— Marianne Moore

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

— Mother Teresa

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

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.

— John Middleton Murry

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

— A. J. Muste

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

What we need is a generation of peace.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Peter Nicols