Quotes on Peace

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

The more laws, the less justice.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.