Explore Quotes on Peace

While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

You are the strongest when relaxed and at peace

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.