Quotes on Peace

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

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Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

Peace is freedom in tranquility.