Explore Quotes on Peace

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

We are all riding on the same bus.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes.

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

Small is good, but none is better.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.