Quotes About Peace

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Being able to resolve conflicts peacefully is one of the greatest strengths we can give our children.

It isn't only famous movie stars who want to be alone. Whenever I hear someone speak of privacy, I find myself thinking once again how real and deep the need for such times is for all human beings . . . at all ages.

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

No, la vera bellezza ha bisogno di silenzio. Una sola parola può distruggerla. La bellezza, la grande bellezza, può essere dolorosa: ci sono momenti in cui si vuole solo piangere, e il rumore di una voce umana, di una macchina, di una radio, perfino il gracchiare di un corvo possono essere tanto distruttivi quanto un sasso scagliato in uno stagno pieno di ninfee rosse e bianche.

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

The United Nations had created a military "peacekeeping" force—the usual lunacy of sending a force to keep the peace where there was no peace to keep, then forbidding them to create the peace, ordering them instead to watch the slaughter without interfering.

Not, perhaps, so elegant as your Berkeley Square, but sometimes, even here, you can hear a Nightingale sing.

The only way to remove permanently the risk of ultimate catastrophe is to abolish war altogether. War must cease to be an admissible social institution. We must learn to resolve our disputes by means other than military confrontation.

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence—free of the networks of dead speech.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

The starry sky is the truest friend in life, when you first become acquainted; it is ever there, it gives ever peace, ever reminds you that your restlessness, your doubt, your pains are passing trivialities. The universe is and will remain unshaken. Our opinions, our struggles, or sufferings are not so important and unique, when all is said and done.

Cerul înstelat este ce cel mai sincer prieten din via??; este mereu acolo, î?i d? întotdeauna pace, î?i aminte?te mereu c? nelini?tea ta, îndoiala ta, durerile tale sunt nimicuri trec?toare. Universul este ?i va r?mâne de neclintit. Când tragem linie, opiniile noastre, luptele noastre, suferin?ele noastre nu sunt a?a de importante ?i de unice.

Der Mensch lernt in der Katastrophe, menschlich zu leben, was er im Frieden nicht kann.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.