936 private quotes tagged peace

“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.” — Elihu Root

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“Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.” — Raul Julia

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“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.” — Etty Hillesum

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“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” — Yoko Ono

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“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.” — George Santayana

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“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.” — Tacitus

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“I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

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“The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.” — Desmond Tutu

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“If you want peace work for justice.” — Pope Paul VI

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“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.” — Matthew Henry

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“In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.” — Desmond Tutu

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“If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.” — John L. Lewis

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“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.” — Benito Mussolini

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“Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.” — Daniel Pipes

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“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.” — Desmond Tutu

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“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.” — George C. Marshall

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“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.” — William Beveridge

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