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Sunday, 7 September 2008
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"It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels." (Huxley, Aldous - Fiction)

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Browse Quotations about Peace

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.
A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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.
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.
All we are saying is give peace a chance...
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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.
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.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
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.
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.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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.
I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.
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.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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.
If you want peace work for justice.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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.
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.
Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.
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.
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
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.
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
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.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.