Quotes on Peace

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

I never thought that the child who was a famous symbol of war would one day be invited to become a symbol of peace.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.