Peace Quotes · Page 538

“Once one of the smaller detachments was defeated, an opportunity was looked for to repeat the strategy, until the entire enemy force…

— Charles River Editors

“And while I ate muffins—things I had never been able even to look at in London, but now swallowed with complacence,—and Pincher…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“There is probably no point in my going into your questions now; for what I could say about your tendency to doubt…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a…

— Anita Amirrezvani

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations…

— James Madison

It is impossible to keep spiritual peace if we do not take care of the mind, that is if we do not…

— Silouan the Athonite

And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge…

— Jason Mraz

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“There are some moments you feel like you'll remember forever. Rare, still moments when everything is NOW, as if everything has been…

— Simon Cheshire

I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

“Nonsense. Islam is unable to live at peace with anyone. We Arabs are the worst. We can’t live with the world, and…

— Leon Uris

“What is it you say now, what peace is there to be made in the last minutes of the last day that…

— Daniel Wallace

While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace…

— Shantideva

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment…

— Kofi Annan

“When we show love and care towards the environment, it responds in kind by safeguarding us. By embracing the environment with a…

— Matheesha Prathapa

“The Christian should always think: 'If peace and tranquility reign today, it will be different tomorrow. The devil can shoot a dart…

— Martin Luther

“One of the central challenges of forging peace, justice and freedom in our time is to experiment with political models that promote…

— Van Steenwyk, Mark

“When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years…

— L.M. Montgomery

Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone…

— Marianne Williamson

Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is…

— Hillary Clinton

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's…

— Jimmy Connors

I think that skateboarding can absolutely help make peace... I know skateboarding can bring people together. You can travel anywhere and if…

— Jamie Thomas

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive…

— Benjamin Franklin

“If she learned anything in school she learned this, courtesy of Albert Ellis, father of the cognitive-behavioral paradigm shift in psychotherapy. Other…

— A. S. A. Harrison

Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the…

— William Ellery Channing

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are…

— Hjalmar Branting

There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add…

— Philip Caputo

She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to…

— Kathryn Lasky

We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We…

— J.R. Miller

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going…

— Frank Borman

In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by…

— Theodor Adorno

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way…

— John F. Kennedy

Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and…

— Dalai Lama

This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a…

— Henri Poincare

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it…

— Dalai Lama

“There should be a law, I though. If you support a war, if you think it's worth the price, that's fine, but…

— Tim O'Brien

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions,…

— Plutarch

“Shalom is the Hebrew word usually translated “peace,” which means prosperity, harmony (within and without), completeness, wholeness, health, welfare, safety, soundness, tranquility,…

— John Eckhardt

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate…

— Anonymous

“Whatever we think and feel will colour what we say or do. He who fears, even unconsciously, or has his least little…

— Dhan Gopal Mukerji