Quotes About Peace

Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

Everything worth fighting for is gained without fighting.

Peace did not serve order; order served peace, and when order became godlike, sacrosanct and inviolate, then the peace thus won became a prison, and those who sought their freedom became enemies to order, and in the elimination of such enemies, peace was lost.

Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars and peace? Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of willful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls.

Tool interrupted, 'do you mock me, or your own ignorance? Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish.

War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity.

I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

Any candidate who thinks that we only need to attack ISIS from the sky, without regard to where they flourish and why, shares President Obama's view that Iran is our partner in peace.

I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.

Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful.

I like to look at the skyline and the moon.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

I sleep really well at night.

I've had a fantastic career. I can sleep at night, and I'm happy with that.

I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!

I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.