Quotes on Achieving Peace

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.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

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 demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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

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