Here we have the best Peace Quotes from famous authors such as John Wooden, Emile Zola, Joe Biden, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one’s home or the peace of one’s mind.
Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.
I declare that I will establish peace in this world.
I like people of faith, and I believe the more people who have spirituality, the better the world will be. It’s about peace and tolerance.
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
‘Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
Peace is the cornerstone of our development.
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
All I need for a perfect holiday is sun and some peace and quiet. Those make for perfect book-writing conditions.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
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.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
I’m happy and at peace with where I am at life.
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
I play for peace and love.
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we’re as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I’d hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that’s beautiful. But I also believe if religion’s not your thing, that’s fine, too, just so long as you’re a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Ultimately I look at the long-term goal of communicating messages. Although I’ve seen some traumatic things, delivering messages of comfort and closure allow for a sense of peace.
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.
Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I’m going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I’m able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.
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.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
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.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
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.
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
I’m deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God… Islam is a religion of peace. You don’t attack. You explain.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
It is far easier to make war than peace.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace – or, rather, a humiliating surrender.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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.
No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that – given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind – chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
I always tell people you can’t make peace half way: to make peace with somebody, you have to make peace and bury the hatchet, or you just keep fighting forever.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
What could become a danger to world peace is Iran‘s nuclear program and the country’s open threat to annihilate Israel.
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria – but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.
That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.
I despise all those who fight for peace. It’s only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.
I would point out that Japan’s proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.
Working hard on peace process is a very good thing for yourself, for your region, for your country.
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
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.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.
We need peace and stability in the Asia–Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time – at long last – be established and maintained.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we’re not apologetic about it.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
Every child’s taste is different. Don’t worry if they’re not reading ‘War and Peace’ at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.
We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
Let us have peace.
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
True humility is contentment.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
On a film set, where there is so much chaos, I find inner peace.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
When life doesn’t make sense, we can still have peace.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She’s a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.
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.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual’s right to live.
I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I’ve worked hard on myself.
Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they’ll be peace.
Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it’s a reason it’s going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president‘s direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that’s extraordinarily important.
Feminism is not only for women It’s something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
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.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
A quiet mind cureth all.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want – a life in peace.
Peace is produced by war.
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine’s unity.
I feel beautiful when I’m at peace with myself. When I’m serene, when I’m a good person, when I’ve been considerate of others.
As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Hawaii is such a wonderful, healing place for me. I feel so at ease with the natives and love the tranquility of the islands. It is a place to find inner peace and be one with nature.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
I love acting. It’s my playground, it let’s me explore. But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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.
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and upholder of international order.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the ‘crimes against the peace’ for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Music is something that should give you peace.
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question – ‘How is the food?’
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
I love acting. It’s my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.
Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
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.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
I’m at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I’m a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I’m doing.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I’m not talking to anyone; I’m not managing anything. It’s just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
I’m just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.
I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don’t go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That’s what gives me peace.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.
We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world – a universe – a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.
Peace begins with a smile.
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.
To deal with these problems – of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty – we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature’s laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
My government’s first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.
To be misunderstood can be the writer‘s punishment for having disturbed the reader‘s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don’t easily express our heartache or show our wounds.
Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.
Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.
The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Power to the peaceful!
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
I think that it’s always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
It’s not a choice between war and peace. It’s a choice between war and endless war. It’s not appeasement. I think it’s better even to call it American self-interest.
Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they’re seen as the messengers of God, so they’re important to me because I’m a Christian.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice – those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don’t.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
The price of peace is righteousness.
The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family – I’m probably the happiest guy in the world.
I like my peace. I am happy in my space.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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!
You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
Bob Marley performed the ‘One Love Peace’ concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There’s always been that in black music and culture in general. It’s no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what’s going on in black life. It’s not unusual for hip-hop.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples.
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Only by addressing the root causes of conflict and disputes can we hope to find lasting peace in a just and equitable world.
If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine’s unity.
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I share the love and peace.
I should like to think that we’ll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, ‘Enough! Let us live as one!’
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I’m reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.
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.
Peace is its own reward.
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
I bought my own home in 2004. It’s a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It’s key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.
One can go to war alone, but you can’t build peace alone.
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world’s eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you’re going to have more war and destruction.
To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life – and so I speak up.
A decision once taken brings peace to a man’s mind and eases his soul.
If you want peace work for justice.
I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
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.
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us – not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.
Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.
We hope that the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will help us to promote Seoul as a symbol of peace beyond war and division in order to attract global attention to peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
Defending peace is the duty of all.
No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
If we really want to make change, we have to make peace with the fact that we cannot self-exempt every time the calendar offers us a more attractive alternative.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference‘, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.
We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
