Quotes About Peace

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Nada puede contribuir tanto a la tranquilidad del alma como no tener opinión alguna.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Gautama Siddhãrta

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

In den einsamen Stunden des Geistes ist es schön in der Sonne zu gehn, an den gelben Mauern des Sommers hin

So quiet are the green woods Of our homeland, The crystalline wave Dying away by the ruined wall, And we wept in sleep; Wandering with timid steps Down past the thorny thicket, Singers in summer's eve, In the sacred peace Of the far resplendent vineyard; Shadows now in the cool womb Of night, grief-stricken eagles. As gently does a moonlit beam close The scarlet scars of melancholy.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

Live in such a way, in love and kindness, that peace and prayer and thanksgiving will be in your homes together. Do not let your homes just be a place to hang your hats at night and get your meals and then run off some place else but let your homes be the abiding place of the Spirit of the Lord.

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

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

The Army is the Indian's best friend.

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

What's the use of worrying It never was worthwhile.

All quiet along the Potomac.

You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

In order to understand peace one must have an good knowledge of chaos. -GB

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

[On World War II:] We could not indulge in a Seven Years War. A king can perhaps do that, but you cannot have such a protracted struggle in a democracy in the face of mounting casualties.