Peace Quotes by Herman Melville

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

— Herman Melville

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do…

— Herman Melville

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

— Herman Melville

“War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.”

— Herman Melville

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

— Herman Melville

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

— Herman Melville

“Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms…

— Herman Melville

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

— Herman Melville

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have…

— Herman Melville

In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix…

— Herman Melville

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It…

— Herman Melville

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of…

— Herman Melville

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed,…

— Herman Melville

But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and…

— Herman Melville

Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace.…

— Herman Melville

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would…

— Herman Melville

The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something…

— Herman Melville

A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is…

— Herman Melville

“Consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as…

— Herman Melville

“I say, I can not identify that thing which is called happiness, that thing whose token is a laugh, or a smile,…

— Herman Melville

“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s…

— Herman Melville