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\"War<\/a>
War and peace quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

War and peace quotes, aphorisms, ideas and thoughts about the dramatic difference between the effects of war and the desire of human kind for peace and love.<\/span><\/p>\n

World Day of Peace, celebrated on January 1 every year<\/a>, is primarily a Catholic feast day dedicated to universal peace on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. On this occasion, Popes generally make authoritative declarations on the Catholic Social Teachings. (Visit our International Days List.)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear William, how is it that there are so many wars in this stupid world? Dear Brown, it’s because peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war\u2019s a destroyer of men.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown via William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

DA Datta, DA Dayadhvam, DA Damyata, shantih, shantih, shantih! (Give, sympathize, control, peace, peace, peace).<\/span>
\nT.S. Eliot from The Waste Land<\/span><\/p>\n

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.<\/span>
\nGeorges Clemenceau<\/span><\/p>\n

A true warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.<\/span>
\nG.K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

The giving of blood is imbued with the psychology of peace, for it leaves its humanitarian mark in the hearts of those who give for their fellowman.<\/span>
\nRed Cross Courier<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.<\/span>
\nMahatma Ghandi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are going through hell, keep going.<\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.<\/span>
\nNiccolo Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.<\/span>
\nEdward Dahlberg<\/span><\/p>\n

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.<\/span>
\nIan Hay<\/span><\/p>\n

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.<\/span>
\nHerodotus<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.<\/span>
\nA Course In Miracles<\/span><\/p>\n

I am searching for that which every man seeks – peace and rest.<\/span>
\nDante Alighieri<\/span><\/p>\n

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.<\/span>
\nJames Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

All that a pacifist can undertake – but it is a very great deal – is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.<\/span>
\nVera Brittain<\/span><\/p>\n

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.<\/span>
\nMartin Amis<\/span><\/p>\n

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

By now the cold war has turned into a hot peace, and people have already begun to sweat a lot.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Gandhi<\/a>
Gandhi quote on peace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right human relations is the only true peace.<\/span>
\nAlice A. Bailey<\/span><\/p>\n

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father’s hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.<\/span>
\nWilliam Barclay<\/span><\/p>\n

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament — disarmament follows peace.<\/span>
\nBernard M. Baruch<\/span><\/p>\n

The peace is won by accompanying God into the battle.<\/span>
\nEivind Josef Berggrav<\/span><\/p>\n

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.<\/span>
\nBhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.<\/span>
\nNiccolo Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Bonaparte<\/span><\/p>\n

When you’re finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you’re going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can’t we learn to live together like decent people?<\/span>
\nFrank Borman<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it\u2019s spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war\u2019s a destroyer of men.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.<\/span>
\nOmar Nelson Bradley<\/span><\/p>\n

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.<\/span>
\nSwami Brahmananda<\/span><\/p>\n

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.<\/span>
\nSwami Brahmananda<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.<\/span>
\nBertolt Brecht<\/span><\/p>\n

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.<\/span>
\nMadame Chiang Kai-Shek<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Peace<\/a>
Peace symbol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.<\/span>
\nMarcus T. Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.<\/span>
\nGeorges Clemenceau<\/span><\/p>\n

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.<\/span>
\nJoseph Conrad<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is produced by war.<\/span>
\nPierre Corneille<\/span><\/p>\n

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all… life at any price has no value whatever;… life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living, and also worth giving.<\/span>
\nEve Curie<\/span><\/p>\n

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.<\/span>
\nEdward Dahlberg<\/span><\/p>\n

The best thing to be happy would be to live in peace and harmony with our neighbor, but where this is not possible, rather than living as slaves, war, destruction and death are better.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.<\/span>
\nMoshe Dayan<\/span><\/p>\n

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.<\/span>
\nWayne Dyer<\/span><\/p>\n

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.<\/span>
\nDwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/p>\n

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.<\/span>
\nDwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/p>\n

We have heard much of the phrase, “peace and friendship.” This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, “peace and friendship, in freedom.” This, I think, is America’s real message to the rest of the world.<\/span>
\nDwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/p>\n

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.<\/span>
\nDwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/p>\n

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.<\/span>
\nT. S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Trust the actions and impulses of your soul-venture bravely and all is well.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Carl<\/a>
Carl William Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There never was a good war or a bad peace.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.<\/span>
\nRobert Fulghum<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace we want because there is another war to fight: against poverty and disease.<\/span>
\nIndira Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

In George Orwell’s 1984 novel, the Ministry of Truth is for telling lies and the Ministry of Peace, which is equivalent to our Ministry of Defense, is for waging war.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.<\/span>
\nGersonides<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nAndre Gide<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nWilliam E. Gladstone<\/span><\/p>\n

In back of tranquility lies always conquered unhappiness.<\/span>
\nDavid Grayson<\/span><\/p>\n

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.<\/span>
\nDag Hammarskjold<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nDag Hammarskjold<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nVaclav Havel<\/span><\/p>\n

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.<\/span>
\nIan Hay<\/span><\/p>\n

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.<\/span>
\nBen Hecht<\/span><\/p>\n

One sword keeps another in the sheath.<\/span>
\nGeorge Herbert<\/span><\/p>\n

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.<\/span>
\nThomas L. Holdcroft<\/span><\/p>\n

When you have a sound mind, you can do what’s necessary.<\/span>
\nEvander Holyfield<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.<\/span>
\nHerbert Clark Hoover<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.<\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.<\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.<\/span>
\nHubert H. Humphrey<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Peaceful<\/a>
Peaceful nature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.<\/span>
\nDean William R. Inge<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.<\/span>
\nGerald G. Jampolsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.<\/span>
\nThomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

It is obvious that in order to educate for peace, one must first know the true value of war.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.<\/span>
\nDouglas William Jerrold<\/span><\/p>\n

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.<\/span>
\nDouglas William Jerrold<\/span><\/p>\n

To get Peace you must work for Justice.<\/span>
\nJohn Paul VI<\/span><\/p>\n

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding; I want the understanding which bringeth peace.<\/span>
\nHelen Keller<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.<\/span>
\nThomas a Kempis<\/span><\/p>\n

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.<\/span>
\nThomas a Kempis<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.<\/span>
\nThomas a Kempis<\/span><\/p>\n

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor — it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.<\/span>
\nCharles F. Kettering<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther King Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please, we can get along here.<\/span>
\nRodney King<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.<\/span>
\nMartin J. Kohe<\/span><\/p>\n

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.<\/span>
\nHenry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

All we are saying is give peace a chance…<\/span>
\nJohn Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n

\"War<\/a>
War and peace aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you want peace, prepare for war, in fact after wars generally there are always periods of peace.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohn Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.<\/span>
\nJohn Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.<\/span>
\nSir Roger L’Estrange<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.<\/span>
\nYutang, Lin<\/span><\/p>\n

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets.<\/span>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.<\/span>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.<\/span>
\nGeorg Christoph Litchenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.<\/span>
\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a sane, wholesome, practical, working faith: That it is a man’s business to do the will of God; second, that God himself takes on the care of that man; and third, that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.<\/span>
\nGeorge MacDonald<\/span><\/p>\n

As the birth of a country arises may all victory come through peace.<\/span>
\nTodd D. Maddocks<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nSidney Madwed<\/span><\/p>\n

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.<\/span>
\nZedong Mao<\/span><\/p>\n

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety.. we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.<\/span>
\nJerry W. McCant<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nWilliam McKinley<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.<\/span>
\nC. C. Mehta<\/span><\/p>\n

The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness.<\/span>
\nMary of Mejugorje<\/span><\/p>\n

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?<\/span>
\nMichael Holmboe Meyer<\/span><\/p>\n

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.<\/span>
\nHenry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.<\/span>
\nJohn Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.<\/span>
\nJohn Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.<\/span>
\nMarianne Moore<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.<\/span>
\nMother Teresa<\/span><\/p>\n

“Intelligence” and “military” are two words that together form such a paradoxical contrast that in comparison with it the values of war and peace are nothing but a naive identity between hate and love.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.<\/span>
\nMother Teresa<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Euro<\/a>
Euro fighters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then – let us make no mistake – pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.<\/span>
\nJohn Middleton Murry<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.<\/span>
\nJawaharlal Nehru<\/span><\/p>\n

What we need is a generation of peace.<\/span>
\nJawaharlal Nehru<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.<\/span>
\nPeter Nicols<\/span><\/p>\n

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.<\/span>
\nIndian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace with a club in hand is war.<\/span>
\nPortuguese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.<\/span>
\nJulius Kambarge Nyerere<\/span><\/p>\n

Better to eat beans in peace than to eat meat in distress.<\/span>
\nGuatemalan Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.<\/span>
\nBasil O’Connor<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.<\/span>
\nNorman Vincent Peale<\/span><\/p>\n

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.<\/span>
\nPeace Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.<\/span>
\nPeace Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.<\/span>
\nPeace Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it<\/span>
\nPeace Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.<\/span>
\nPope John XXIII<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want peace work for justice.<\/span>
\nPope Paul VI<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.<\/span>
\nPrincess Diana<\/span><\/p>\n

In one way or another, power almost always ends up degenerating and those who do not rebel against his vanity in times of peace cannot therefore be opposed to his stupidity in times of war.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.<\/span>
\nMarcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n

Do something at its right time, and peace will accompany it.<\/span>
\nAfrican Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to live in peace, you must not tell everything that you know, nor judge everything that you see.<\/span>
\nMexican Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.<\/span>
\nTurkish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being, we can do it.<\/span>
\nEleanor Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nEleanor Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace, like charity, begins at home.<\/span>
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.<\/span>
\nAnwar Sadat<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.<\/span>
\nJohann Friedrich Von Schiller<\/span><\/p>\n

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.<\/span>
\nHelen Schucman<\/span><\/p>\n

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.<\/span>
\nRod Serling<\/span><\/p>\n

A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.<\/span>
\nSamuel Smiles<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.<\/span>
\nBaruch Benedict de Spinoza<\/span><\/p>\n

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.<\/span>
\nSt. Francis of Assisi<\/span><\/p>\n

To many men… the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.<\/span>
\nGeorge Steiner<\/span><\/p>\n

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.<\/span>
\nU. Thant<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.<\/span>
\nAdlai E. Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is achieved by accepting the things you’re not willing to change and changing the things your not willing to accept.<\/span>
\nMarilyn Suttle<\/span><\/p>\n

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.<\/span>
\nPublius Cornelius Tacitus<\/span><\/p>\n

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible Source: John 16.33<\/span><\/p>\n

Seek peace, and pursue it.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible Source: Proverbs 34:14<\/span><\/p>\n

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible Source: Isaiah 2:4<\/span><\/p>\n

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible Source: Psalms 119:165<\/span><\/p>\n

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible Source: Psalms 34:14<\/span><\/p>\n

When a person’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.<\/span>
\nSt. Theresa of Lisieux<\/span><\/p>\n

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.<\/span>
\nThich Nhat Hanh<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.<\/span>
\nJames Thomson<\/span><\/p>\n

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.<\/span>
\nHarry S. Truman<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nHarry S. Truman<\/span><\/p>\n

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.<\/span>
\nUNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you wish for peace be ready for war.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Two things rob people of their peace of mind: work unfinished and work not yet begun.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

When we can’t find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

When we are willing to make peace within ourselves, and peace with the environment in which we live and peace with each other and the animals we love and peace with the world so there are no wars, we will begin to understand how blessed we humans really are while we’re on this earth and among each other and the more we strive for this Peace on Earth the more we will leave Paradise behind for those that come after us.<\/span>
\nBrenda Vaccaro<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.<\/span>
\nYoga Vasishtha<\/span><\/p>\n

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.<\/span>
\nGeorge Washington<\/span><\/p>\n

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.<\/span>
\nGeorge Washington<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.<\/span>
\nJohn Greenleaf Whittier<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is not God’s gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.<\/span>
\nElie Wiesel<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is our gift to each other.<\/span>
\nElie Wiesel<\/span><\/p>\n

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.<\/span>
\nWoodrow T. Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.<\/span>
\nWoodrow T. Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.<\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.<\/span>
\nHubert Van Zeller<\/span><\/p>\n

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