Quotes About Peace

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.

War among men defiles this world.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

War ought to be no man's wish.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

That's me, man – I'm a lover not a fighter.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?