Quotes on Peace

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.