Quotes About Peace

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to every­one. That is Unity... the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.