Quotes on Peace

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.