Quotes About Peace

War would end if the dead could return.

There are some sleeping dogs that should be left to lie; there are some questions that should not be asked.

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

Când un om sau domn e puternic si tare, atunci poate face pacea cum vrea dar, cand e fara putere, unul mai tare va veni asupra lui si va face cu el ceea ce va voi

But theoretical, imagined suffering is not what distresses a man and destroys his peace of mind. Only what you have seen with pitying eyes can really shake you.

happiness would prevail where trees were planted.

Live and let live" was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives, and it maintained itself throughout all classes.

How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!

soothing silence instead of an oppressive one.

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.

There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes into safe harbour he longs to be back in the turmoil.

Growing old, after all, means that one no longer fears the past."..

the soul cannot remain at peace when the world beyond is in uproar.

Ningún orden moral puede obtenerse por la fuerza, pues toda violencia engendra inevitablemente violencia.

Y por mucho calculadores sagaces y fríos que repitan la falta de perspectivas del erasmismo y la realidad parezca darles la razón, siempre será asimismo necesario que haya quien resalte lo que une a los pueblos en vez de separarlos y renueve en el corazón de la humanidad la credibilidad de la idea de una época futura más humana..

Hiçbir arzum yok, yeryüzünde masum kalmak d???nda.

Ze [Florence Nightingale] organiseerde ontelbare pacifistische congressen en de triomf van haar leven was dat ze Alfred Nobel, de uitvinder van het dynamiet, zo op het geweten werkte dat hij als compensatie voor het onheil dat hij met zijn uitvinding van het dynamiet had aangericht, de Nobelprijs voor de vrede en een beter internationaal begrip instelde.

Sürekli bir ÅŸeyler yapmam gerekiyor. Yaln?zca bir ÅŸeyler yapt???mda bu huzursuzluk hâli geçiyor. O zaman korkmama gerek kalm?yor. Çünkü yaln?zl?k korkusu zehirden beterdir. Bu korkuyu duymaktansa çal??mak daha iyidir. Arkamda bir huzursuzluÄŸun beklediÄŸini hissettiÄŸimde beni yakalayamamas? için koÅŸar?m.

La vejez no significa nada más que dejar de sufrir por el pasado.

In such epochs where the highest values of life—our peace, our independence, our basic rights, all that makes our existence more pure, more beautiful, all that justifies it—are sacrificed to the demon inhabiting a dozen fanatics and ideologues, all the problems of the man who fears for his humanity come down to the same question: how to remain free?

Pero toda sombra es, al fin y al cabo, hija de la luz y solo quien ha conocido la claridad y las tinieblas, la guerra y la paz, el ascenso y la caída, solo este ha vivido de verdad.

We have all known it: even when closed in, the soul cannot remain at peace when the world beyond is in uproar. Through walls and windows we receive the tremors of the time; you might win a moment's respite, but you cannot withdraw completely from the world.

I had sworn to myself – an oath which I still kept in 1940 – never to write a single word that affirmed war or disparaged another nation.

penso que só quem amou é sofreu, só quem viu a paz é a guerra, só quem ascendeu é caiu, só esse, creio, pode dizer que viveu verdadeiramente