Quotes on Peace

We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.

When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.