If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having.
Peace Quotes
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in exemption from, suffering.
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.
Everlasting peace will come into the world when when the last man has slain the last but one
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations’s professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
No, friends, you cannot compel human beings to take human life, if you give them the chance to reason and to think, to investigate and to analyze. And that is precisely what the authorities of this country don’t want.
Every person ought to endeavor peace as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it… he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war; the first branch of which rule contains the first and fundamental Law of Nature, which is, To seek peace and follow it; the […]
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
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? We don’t realise the proliferation of these weapons and the arms race of $400 billion that we’re spending on arms in the world – insanity, madness!
We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
