Quotes
Quotes about Peace
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.
We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beasts Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites We never pause to wonder at our feasts If animals, like men, can possibly have rights We pray on Sundays that we may have light To guide our footsteps on the path we tread We're sick of war We do not want to fight The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat Regardless of the suffering and pain We cause by doing so. If thus we treat Defenseless animals for sport or gain How can we hope in this world to attain the PEACE we say we are so anxious for We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral law Thus cruelty begets its offspring: war.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -Jawaharlal Nehru.
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.
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.
There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -John Foster Dulles.
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon.
In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -Mother Teresa.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind; Freedom from passion and from care, If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
