Peace Quotes · Page 373

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

— Olive Schreiner

“They warn us to be careful in choosing our associates; other people, after all, have the power to shatter our tranquility—if we…

— William B. Irvine

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

— Joshua L. Liebman

“Success in life is useless is you don't have a balance of happiness, peace, hope, and optimism.”

— Germany Kent

“Suffering led the Buddha to enlightenment, and it may cause us, against our will, to grow in compassion, awareness, and possibly eventually…

— Huston Smith

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the…

— Ronald Reagan

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

— Anonymous

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

— C. S. Lewis

For my birthday I want world peace, to end hunger and pain, to end global warming, to end racism, for people not…

— Anonymous

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of…

— Dennis Kucinich

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith…

— Morihei Ueshiba

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator…

— Natan Sharansky

“Colonel Ridge Zirkander had walked the hall to General Ort’s office so many times he suspected his boots were responsible for the…

— Lindsay Buroker

If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas…

— James Van Praagh

It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If…

— Brother Lawrence

“The Hebrew word for this perfect, harmonious interdependence among all parts of creation is called shalom. We translate it as “peace,” but…

— Timothy Keller

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and…

— Anonymous

When you pick the most difficult and painful choice but your heart is at peace, you will know you made the right…

— Anonymous

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“In the silence, there was peace. A peace that came too soon, but I sought refuge in its release.”

— Rebecca Donovan

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of…

— Ludwig Quidde

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

— Rick Larsen

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its…

— William Barclay

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what…

— Chinua Achebe

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the…

— William James

“People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a…

— Molly Friedenfeld

“Suffering happens when we expect life to be something more and different than what it is in the present moment. When we…

— Kim Eng

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity…

— Nelson Mandela

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

— Karl Marlantes

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's so peaceful in the dark. So calm that for a while, I don't move. I sink, and that is all I'm…

— Nikki Rae

The more I travel the more I see and know what people need. They need peace, they need joy and they need…

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

— Woody Allen

No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

— Rosemary Altea

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't…

— Herman Wouk

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

— Anonymous

I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can…

— Dar Williams

“Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance…

— Kylie Minogue