Quotes on Peace

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.