Peace Quotes - Page 20

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great.

The Heart Break Kid does not rest in peace. He can stay up ALL NIIIGHT!

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.