Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.
Peace Quotes
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Peace comes from feelings of satisfaction when working with joy, living with hope, loving with abandonment.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
To have peace we should be willing… to pay any price – even the price of instituting a war – to compel cooperation for peace… This peace-seeking policy, though it cast us in a character new to a true democracy – an initiator of a war of aggression – would earn for us a proud […]
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it.
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
