Quotes about peace
peace woven stones
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles
peace brother war
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. Percy Bysshe Shelley
peace war games
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
peace greed victory
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds Paul Valery
peace real heaven
Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.
peace challenges use-of-power
I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. Mary McLeod Bethune
peace prayer worry
Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering." Mary Pipher
peace war men
Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful. Mary Doria Russell
peace tradition members
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. Mary Catherine Bateson
peace children differences
When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.
peace taken gun
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. Martin Amis
peace opposites simplicity
The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation. Mark Sheppard
peace harmony masquerade
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.
peace riding bus
We are all riding on the same bus.
peace simplicity essentials
Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.
peace cancer dying
If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
peace bread justified
The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace. Pope John Paul II
peace war names
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.
peace struggle race
Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.
peace believe knowing
There must be a cooperation of all who believe in God, knowing that authentic religiousness - far from placing individuals and peoples in conflict with one another - rather pushes them together to build a world of peace.
peace justice fairness
There is no true peace without fairness , truth , justice and solidarity .
peace teach
To reach peace, teach peace.
peace attitude names
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
peace humanity faces
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.
peace war men
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
peace war problem
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
peace war humanity
War is a defeat for humanity.
peace lasts take-a-chance
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
peace light anvils
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. Pindar
peace heart choices
Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love. Pierre Beaumarchais
peace war
Peace is produced by war. Pierre Corneille
peace freedom men
We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups. Pope Francis
peace children heart
May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.