Quotes on Peace

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

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.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.