Quotes about peace
peace sleep home
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. Black Kettle
peace men rivers
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal
peace believe men
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
peace war want
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. Ludwig von Mises
peace war roots
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
peace war government
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
peace war justice
It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice. Charles Peguy
peace truth freedom
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. Ayn Rand
peace war stupid
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
peace real lying
The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm. Bertrand Russell
peace future ignorance
One must care about a world one will not see.
peace philosophy humanity
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
peace military war
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
peace secretary
Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed. Benjamin Banneker
peace war years
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace. Benito Mussolini
peace world capitalist
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. Benjamin Disraeli
peace lord diplomacy
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
peace war aggravation
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
peace war limits
War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits. Carl von Clausewitz
peace war mean
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
peace war womb
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
peace real war
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
peace heart men
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect. Carl Sandburg
peace war giving
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
peace war men
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. Cardinal Richelieu
peace war community
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. C. S. Lewis
peace determination war
It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy. Calvin Coolidge
peace lying opportunity
One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.
peace war army
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
peace expression body
When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body. Bryant H. McGill
peace heart world
Peace for the whole world begins with a smile in your own heart.
peace war hard-work
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. Cesar Chavez
peace violence defeat
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.