Quotes About Peace

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perhaps because of rising standards of living, children are being treated better worldwide. In only a few decades, sweeping global changes have begun to move in precisely the directions needed for human survival. A new consciousness is developing which recognizes that we are one species.

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

Why is the half of humanity with a special sensitivity to the preciousness of life, the half untainted by testosterone poisoning, almost wholly unrepresented in defense establishments and peace negotiations worldwide? [blurb on Daniella Gioseffi's _Women on War_; quoted in Carol Lynn Pearson's _The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy_]

You'd be surprised how rarely something like that happens. In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. In such a case, our job would be to leave them alone. To make sure that no one bothers them. To let them work out their destiny.

the more people killed in a war, the less likely it was to occur, and the longer before you could witness it, just as violent storms occur less frequently than cloudbursts. Richardson

If we can accomplish the integration of the search without obliterating cultural differences or destroying ourselves, we will have accomplished a great thing.

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

Desconocer la muerte da tranquilidad. El hombre no goza de esa tranquilidad, es el único ser viviente que sabe que va a morir, y que sabe en qué consiste la muerte. Los otros seres no, y así deberían vivir todos, sin saberlo, sin tener la más remota idea.

Oh, God, can't we stop now? Finally? Please let us. It's so quiet here, now.

Simple implies both ease of operation and a direct connection with the type of elemental pleasures that we go away on holiday to experience - the sun streaming through the windows, for example, the texture of a rug underfoot, or basic peace and quiet.

Love turns work into rest.

There's something healing about sitting here and listening to the waves, knowing that God is still in control even when it seems like he's not.

The highlander seemed to float through life very much the same as a cloud in an empty sky, touching nothing, leaving no trace of his passing.

Let the stillness be, High Lord. Do not disturb it. If you are able, listen to its voice—but let it be.

Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.

He didn't try to think, didn't care to remember, but wished only to lose himself in the peace and quiet

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace.

the Races could succeed in their efforts to maintain peace only by strengthening their ties to one another, not by distancing themselves.

We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers.

Não é preciso tornar as pessoas fisicamente incapazes de usar violência para acabar com uma guerra

It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.

Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace

Knowing when not to fight is just as important as knowing how.