936 private quotes tagged peace

“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.” — Richard Pryor

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“I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'” — Elayne Boosler

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“Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.” — Sherri Shepherd

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“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

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“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.” — Gerald Jampolsky

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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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“Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.” — Noel Coward

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“To awake from death is to die in peace.” — Douglas Horton

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“Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.” — Margaret Walker

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“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.” — King Abdullah II

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“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.” — Jenny Shipley

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“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.” — Anna Akhmatova

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“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” — Patrick Henry

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“When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.” — David Mamet

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“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.” — Alfred Nobel

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“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.” — Brad Pitt

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“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.” — Maria Montessori

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“Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.” — Richard Cobden

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“In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.” — Wangari Maathai

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“As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.” — Andrea Dworkin

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