Quotes on Peace

Peace is an idea born from hope and the desire to see your children raise a family, walk in a market, and engage in simple pleasures of everyday life without fear.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.