Friday, September 14, 2012

Peace Quotes

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 
Jimi Hendrix 


If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. 
Mother Teresa 


An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. 
Mahatma Gandhi 


Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. 
John Lennon 


Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. 
John F. Kennedy 


Peace begins with a smile. 
Mother Teresa

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. 
William Shakespeare 


I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. 
Muhammad Ali 


A people free to choose will always choose peace. 
Ronald Reagan 


If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. 
Nelson Mandela 


He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. 
Benjamin Franklin 


I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 


Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind. 
Sydney Madwed 


Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 


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. 
Eleanor Roosevelt 


Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 


The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. 
Carlos Santana 


Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. 
Benjamin Franklin 


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


Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. 
Nelson Mandela


Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen. 
Marianne Williamson 


Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. 
William Hazlitt 


Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. 
Thomas Jefferson 


The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 


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


I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. 
Joan Jett
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. 
Virginia Woolf 


One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. 
Morihei Ueshiba 


Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. 
George Bernard Shaw 


Peace is its own reward. 
Mahatma Gandhi 


Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. 
Baruch Spinoza 


It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. 
John F. Kennedy 


If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. 
Napoleon Bonaparte 


Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. 
Mahatma Gandhi 


Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. 
Swami Sivananda 


Peace is liberty in tranquillity. 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 


It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. 
Thomas Fuller 


War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. 
H. L. Mencken 


We make war that we may live in peace. 
Aristotle 


For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. 
Irving Babbitt


Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. 
Lyndon B. Johnson 


Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 


I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live. 
Godfrey Reggio 


People always make war when they say they love peace. 
David Herbert Lawrence 


I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. 
Georges Clemenceau 


The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. 
Peace Pilgrim

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. 
Dag Hammarskjold 


Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. 
Friedrich Schiller 


It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. 
Andre Gide 


The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. 
Arthur Henderson 


To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. 
Peace Pilgrim 


Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. 
John Greenleaf Whittier 


The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country. 
Zinedine Zidane 


You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. 
Geraldine Ferraro 


I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace. 
Garrett Morris 


The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. 
Silvia Cartwright 


The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. 
Tony Snow 


This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future. 
Mark Kennedy 


Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. 
Phyllis McGinley 


It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. 
Arthur Henderson



One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. 
Daniel Berrigan 


Peace is the first thing the angels sang. 
John Keble 


The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. 
James Montgomery 


Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. 
John Andrew Holmes 


Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. 
Maria Schell 


Power to the peaceful! 
Michael Franti

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. 
Black Kettle 


One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. 
David Borenstein

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