Peace Quotes - Page 22

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.