74 quotes
“For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
— General Douglas MacArthur
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
— Spinoza
"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
"Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender."
— Richard Paul Evans
"Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history."
— Pope John Paul II
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon
"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."
— James Carter
"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
— E.M. Forster
"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."
"If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life."
— Wayne W. Dyer
"There is peace even in the storm"
— Vincent van Gogh
"i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace"
— Ulysses S. Grant
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
— Thomas Paine
"The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it."
— Thomas Hobbes
"If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
"There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it."
— Robin Hobb
"No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons."
— Pope Paul VI
"Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?"
— Noam Chomsky