Quotes

Quotes about Peace


Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

Book of Common Prayer

"But, Rome, 'tis alone, with awful sway, to rule Mankind; and make the world obey; Disposing peace, and War, thy own Majestick Way. To tame the Proud, the fetter'd Slave to free; These are Imperial Arts, and worthy thee." -Anchises to Aeneas in the Underworld

We want peace and we want war. The workers want to be left in peace to wage war against the bosses

Death is never the point, the point is the peacefulness of death

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Jim Harkins

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like passengers in his car.

Jim Harkins

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Erasmus

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

George Christopher Lichtenberg

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

Sun Tzu [The Art of War]

He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Doris Mortman

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

Sun Tzu [The Art of War]

He who does not attempt to make peace

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

Franz Kafka, while admiring fish in an aquarium

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who does not attempt to make peace

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

Helen Keller

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

Woodrow Wilson

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