Quotes about peace

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

— Richard M. Nixon

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

— Julius Kambarge Nyerere

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

— Basil O'Connor

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

— Peace Pilgrim

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

— Peace Pilgrim

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

— Peace Pilgrim

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

— Peace Pilgrim

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

— Peace Pilgrim

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

— Peace Pilgrim

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

— Pope John XXIII

If you want peace work for justice.

— Pope Paul VI

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

— Proverb

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

— Proverb

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

— Indian Proverb

Peace with a club in hand is war.

— Portuguese Proverb

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

— Turkish Proverb

The peace dividend is peace.

— Dan Quayle

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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.

— Theodore Roosevelt

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

— John Ruskin

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.

— Bertrand Russell

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

— Anwar Sadat

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

— Carl Sandburg

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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.

— Helen Schucman

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

— Rod Serling

A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

— William Shakespeare

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous

— George Bernard Shaw

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

— Samuel Smiles

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

— Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

— George Steiner

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

— U. Thant

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

— St. Theresa of Lisieux

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

— Thích Nhat Hanh

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

— James Thomson

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

— Harry S Truman

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.

— Harry S Truman

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

— Unesco

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

— Source Unknown

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

— Source Unknown

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

— Source Unknown

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

— Source Unknown

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

— Source Unknown

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

— Source Unknown

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

— Source Unknown

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

— George Washington

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

— George Washington

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace is our gift to each other.

— Elie Wiesel

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

— Elie Wiesel

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

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.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

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.

— Virginia Woolf

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

— Mao Zedong

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or highroad to the soul's destination.

— Joseph Campbell

There hasn't been peace on earth because people cant seem to figure out that the real enemy is the people manipulating world events from behind the scenes for their own selfish interests.

— James Dye

When you are at peace with yourself anyplace is home.

— Source Unknown

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

— Thomas Paine

When the sun goes to sleep It is time to stop thinking It is time to start feeling The reality of your heart Where peace is all there is

— Roxana Jones

Enjoy the good health. Bring the truth happiness. Care of his own family. Give the peace to all. Firstly, one must discipline and control his own mind. If he can do so, the enlightenment, wisdom and virtue will go to him naturally.

— Buddha

Preach peace not pieces

— ranka dharam