Peace Quotes
9841 Peace quotes by 3934 unique authors
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No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
— Brian Tracy
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we…
— Thomas Merton
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
— Dale Carnegie
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How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is…
— Henri Nouwen
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The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and…
— James Wolfensohn
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Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of…
— Wallace Stevens
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as…
— Russell Simmons
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In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less…
— Byron Katie
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I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world…
— Byron Katie
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A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who…
— Byron Katie
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Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples…
— Frank Chodorov
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The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing…
— H. L. Mencken
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There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
— Winston Churchill
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Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How…
— Stephen Covey
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