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Quotes About Peace

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
~ Oswald Chambers
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
~ Epicurus
By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
~ Gautama Buddha
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
~ Herbert Hoover
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
~ Francois Fenelon
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
~ Anaxagoras
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
~ Herbert Hoover
There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
~ Black Elk
When man to man shall be friend and brother.
~ Gerald Massey
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
~ Denis Diderot
I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
~ Pierre Trudeau
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.
~ Francis Kilvert
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
~ Mark Twain
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
~ Ivo Andric
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
~ U Thant
Man is ill because he is never still.
~ Paracelsus
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let a man overcome anger by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
~ St. Catherine of Siena