Quotes About Peace

Entregue a criança. — Gundleus ignorou os insultos, sabendo que eram apenas desafios esperados de um homem antes da batalha. — Dê-me o rei aleijado! — Dê-me a sua prostituta, Gundleus — respondeu Owain. — Você não é homem suficiente para ela. Dê-me a prostituta e você pode ir em paz. Gundleus cuspiu.

Quando um inimigo quer conversar significa que não quer lutar.

weakness invites war

Morena como as sombras.

would rather draw a blade than settle an argument with words, for that is what a warrior does, but most men and women are not fighters. They crave peace. They want nothing more than to watch their children grow, to plant their seeds and live to see the harvest, to worship their god, to love their family and to be left in peace.

I decided to start a war, father, I said, cheerfully, it's so much more interesting than peace.

after that I can die in peace instead of having to explain the most elementary matters to absurdly credulous halfwits. And

What are our intentions, sir?" "Our intentions, Milton? Our intentions are victory, fame, glory, peace, forgiveness of our enemies, reconciliation, magnanimity, prosperity, happiness, and the assured promise of heaven's reward." "Then might I suggest, sir," Cogswell said, trying to sober the ebullient Senator, "that we advance and occupy that stand of trees?

Quando un uomo è onesto dorme tranquillo. E questo vale più di cinque centesimi rubati.

il y a toute cette autre pensée de la guerre, non pas virile, exaltante, source de grandeur ou d'accomplissement de soi, mais tout simplement nécessaire car l'alternative à cette guerre ce ne serait pas la paix mais l'enfer...(ch. 5 La nostalgie de la guerre)

There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of the few countries in the world where, despite everything, you can still breathe freely.

In brief, I consider solitude so necessary to happiness

Learn then, my son, that death is a benefit to all men: it is the night of that restless day we call by the name of life.

But when love already keeps you warm, then there's no need to look for pleasure anywhere else.

When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the colors of things in the kitchen dimmed until nothing remained of them but lighter and darker shades of gray, I was completely happy.

Da qualche anno la lascio stare, la nostra storia. Ho fatto pace con lei. Ed ecco che è ritornata, particolare su particolare e in maniera così rotonda, conchiusa e regolata, che ora non mi rende più triste. Che razza di storia triste! ho pensato per tanto tempo. Non è che adesso pensi che sia felice. Ma penso che sia giusta.

Nothing weighed heavily

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for everyone. Adopting this would help turn our Earth into a paradise.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need for our civ ilisation; but no such system has a chance while men are so unhappy that mutual extermination seems to them less dreadful than continued endurance of the light of day

War grows out of ordinary human nature.