We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Peace Quotes from Elayne Boosler, Herbert Hoover, Muhammad Yunus, Martti Ahtisaari, James Russell Lowell. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.’
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.
Peace should be understood in a human way – in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.
The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator’s role combines those of a ship’s pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.
Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you’re going to have more war and destruction.
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
The end of art is peace.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we’re not apologetic about it.
When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
I have long been an advocate for peace and human rights in Canada and around the globe.
Peace is our gift to each other.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I’ve worked hard on myself.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
On all the peaks lies peace.
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent – that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.
A decision once taken brings peace to a man’s mind and eases his soul.
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
‘Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
Only by addressing the root causes of conflict and disputes can we hope to find lasting peace in a just and equitable world.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
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.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time – at long last – be established and maintained.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
In time of peace prepare for war.
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
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.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
If we really want to make change, we have to make peace with the fact that we cannot self-exempt every time the calendar offers us a more attractive alternative.
When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want – a life in peace.
We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace – or, rather, a humiliating surrender.
I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.
I’m happy and at peace with where I am at life.
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Even if I could talk face to face with the pilot who dropped the bombs I would tell him, ‘We cannot change history, but we should try to do good things for the present and for the future to promote peace.’
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual’s right to live.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace – you feel as though you’re where you’re meant to be.
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab 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.
Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
It’s not a choice between war and peace. It’s a choice between war and endless war. It’s not appeasement. I think it’s better even to call it American self-interest.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
I despise all those who fight for peace. It’s only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
There’s nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
I’m deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.
We make war that we may live in peace.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
I’ve read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home – same as beer.
Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
I believe it is peace in our time.
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.
Well the message I have for everyone working on peace, is that bringing results on peace can be easily entrained passively.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Every time I’m in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace.
This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they’ll be peace.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people’s conscience.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can’t have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years – and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won’t make these decisions, it’s a very popular thing. Just not everybody’s aware of it.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
I haven’t had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It’s somewhat complicated to understand that. I’ve hardly ever spoken about it. You’re in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there’s part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.
We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don’t easily express our heartache or show our wounds.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I’m not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
One can go to war alone, but you can’t build peace alone.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
I bought my own home in 2004. It’s a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It’s key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.
I like peace and quiet. It’s like I’m a loner.
Love, peace and soul.
If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine’s unity.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Carrying yourself with poise and joy and peace within – that’s sexy.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
The more I travel the more I see and know what people need. They need peace, they need joy and they need love.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That’s a wealth that’s priceless. You can’t buy compassion.
On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‘then’ and ‘maybe,’ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.
Peace begins with a smile.
Jesus said, ‘Greater things of these you shall do…’ Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
I think that it’s always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
In the scriptures, ‘peace’ means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person’s heart.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
I’m just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that – given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind – chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.
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.
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
There’s so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too.
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Peace is a conscious choice.
Wishful thinking won’t make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin’s worldview won’t make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
I love acting. It’s my playground, it let’s me explore. But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
Negative peace is possible as long as you have a strong army.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
A quiet mind cureth all.
I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.
We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.
Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.
Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.
Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
Jesus said, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ And I think a lot of people don’t understand that there’s a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying ‘I love peace’ doesn’t bring it.
America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, ‘No,’ and presented a peace plan.
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I’d hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It’s about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I share the love and peace.
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
Hawaii is such a wonderful, healing place for me. I feel so at ease with the natives and love the tranquility of the islands. It is a place to find inner peace and be one with nature.
Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
Just as it is fire’s nature to burn, it is meditation’s nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
‘Peace Train’ is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn’t the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
When life doesn’t make sense, we can still have peace.
Russia is a direct threat to our NATO allies in the Baltics and in Poland as well as a threat to peace and stability in the entire western world.
If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it’s a reason it’s going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president’s direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that’s extraordinarily important.
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
The price of peace is righteousness.
No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
I feel beautiful when I’m at peace with myself. When I’m serene, when I’m a good person, when I’ve been considerate of others.
When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.
The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God’s peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
Ms. Clinton, like the Obama administration more broadly, believes that appeasing Islamists… promotes peace and stability.
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
We in the West think of peace as society’s default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family – I’m probably the happiest guy in the world.
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
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.
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I’m not talking to anyone; I’m not managing anything. It’s just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
If you want peace work for justice.
Peace is not a state – it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It’s possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it’s like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace – we have to give it away.
I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
To deal with these problems – of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty – we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature’s laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
On a film set, where there is so much chaos, I find inner peace.
Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we’ve set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Peace is produced by war.
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.
I love acting. It’s my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us – not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
The NHS is one of the most humanitarian acts that has ever been undertaken in peace time.
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
As prime minister, I changed Israel’s position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
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.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don’t go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That’s what gives me peace.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.
I would point out that Japan’s proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
My government’s first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
To me, it’s that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‘We want peace, we want stability,’ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one’s home or the peace of one’s mind.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
I am trying to make my peace with the paparazzi.
Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life – and so I speak up.
As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
The opposite of war is not peace, it’s creation.
I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.
China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.
I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
For the most part, Islam is about peace. It’s dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we’ll fight in the name of Allah. We’re not going to let you disrespect our prophet.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.
I like my peace. I am happy in my space.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Maybe it’s like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.
Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question – ‘How is the food?’
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
I really love peace and quiet.
Just as ‘Islam’ literally means ‘peace,’ none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It’s the failure of diplomacy. ‘War and Peace,’ ‘A Farewell to Arms,’ ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land… let there be no more wars.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Peace is its own reward.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions.
We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine’s unity.
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I’m going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I’m able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
I feel like it is important to make sure you are always praying, always talking to have clarity of mind and peace.
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Never underestimate or mock peace.
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.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Don’t worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.
I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I’ve worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.
Every child’s taste is different. Don’t worry if they’re not reading ‘War and Peace’ at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
My day job may be exhausting, but cooking is my peace. My dream is to have a big family with lots of grandkids. And we’ll get together every Sunday for a hearty dinner at our house, and we’ll all live in flavorful bliss, happily ever after.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She’s a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
This film ‘Hero’ talks about the peace of Chinese people.
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Law and order is a state responsibility. I can assure you peace will be maintained in Uttar Pradesh.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can’t bomb it into peace.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.
The ‘peace movement’ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
I play for peace and love.
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.
Peace is the cornerstone of our development.
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.
There are days when my heart is troubled, and just being in the Lord’s presence and thinking about His love for me fills my heart with inexplicable peace and joy.
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.
I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.
I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that’s beautiful. But I also believe if religion’s not your thing, that’s fine, too, just so long as you’re a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.
We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.
The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Anyone who spends time on the road knows there’s something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska – you sit with it, and there’s a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path.
I like people of faith, and I believe the more people who have spirituality, the better the world will be. It’s about peace and tolerance.
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
We live in a diverse society – in fact, a diverse world – and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it’s getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
More than anything, praying just helps me to concentrate and let go of things that don’t matter in that moment. It gives me peace knowing I’m in good hands.
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they’d accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
To awake from death is to die in peace.
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’
Music is something that should give you peace.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
All I need for a perfect holiday is sun and some peace and quiet. Those make for perfect book-writing conditions.
We all avow to struggle for making this country a welfare state where everyone is allowed to spend life on the basis of social justice and where everyone can live in peace and honour.
Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace – all we need is a fighting chance.
Walter Mercado means love, peace and understanding, means compassion.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.
Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
I should like to think that we’ll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, ‘Enough! Let us live as one!’
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world’s eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
We work together. No one is more important than the other. We are all Zimbabweans. We want to grow our economy. We want peace in our country.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
I declare that I will establish peace in this world.
Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
