“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”
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“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.”
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.”
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
“We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.”
“Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.”
“First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”
“Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred universal brotherhood, not enmity peace, and not violence.”
“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”
“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”
“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.”
“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
“America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.”
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”
“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.”
“We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.”