Peace Quotes - Page 18

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.

The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.

If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.