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Quotes About Peace

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
~ James Russell Lowell
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.
~ John F. Kennedy
And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.
~ Juliana Berners
A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?
~ Laozi
Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.
~ Charles Bukowski
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
~ Chinua Achebe
A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties
~ Confucius
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
~ Desmond Tutu
An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.
~ E. Stanley Jones
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...
~ Eduard Shevardnadze
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
~ Epictetus
It's cool to see everybody come together and do their own thing, but there's never been any drama. I never saw any on the X-Men set, and I never saw any on the Horror Story set.
~ Evan Peters
A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
~ Francis M. Lyman
Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
~ Friedrich Schiller
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
~ H. L. Mencken
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.
~ Albert Einstein