Quotes on Peace

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.