Quotes on Peace

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.