Best 6010 quotes in «peace quotes» category

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

The package destroys not just the peace process but all the peace dynamics in society. This is a bid to crush opposition.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

The only place I've found peace in my life is in church. I owe my life to God.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.

The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

The peace dividend is peace.

The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom.

The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.