Peace Quotes
554 Peace quotes:
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
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"A people free to choose will always choose peace."
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"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
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"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others."
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"Peace is its own reward."
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"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."
Peace Quotes
Mental Quotes
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"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."
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"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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"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."
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"A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
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"If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness"
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"There is no road towards peace; peace is the road"
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"In this weak piping time of peace."
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"Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done."
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"The people of the United States want peace. The people of China want peace. The people of the Soviet Union want peace. Why can't we have peace?"
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"Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal."
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"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
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