Quotes About Peace

we were both joyous, not because of drinking so much wine, but because of the excessive happines that we had inward. we both had understood, in our own ways, that we were two insects with short life spans, sticked for good onto the earth's crust, that we found a nice place by the sea behind some canes and gas cans, that we cuddled tightly, that in front of us we had good things and food, and inside of us we had peace, love and trust.

Opet sam se uverio koliko je sre?a jednostavna stvar i koliko joj malo treba – ?aša vina, kesten, jeftini mangal, huka mora; ništa više.

Having as little to do with human beings as possible - in some weird way, I'm at peace.

Free is a man who has no desires.

Galen tells us that the heart and all the arteries pulsate with the same rhythm, so that from one you can judge of all, and that a slow and regular pulse signifies good health. But since Achmed, I have found that the pulse also may be used to determine the state of a patient's agitation or peace of mind. I have done so many times, and the pulse has proven to be The Messenger Who Never Lies.

Ciertamente el bien y la misericordia me seguirán todos los días de mi vida y en la casa del Señor moraré por largos días.

When they left behind all houses and the stink of too many people and stopped for an especially lavish breakfast cooked by the side of a noisy stream, each agreed that a city was not the finest place to breathe God's air and enjoy the sun's warmth.

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?

I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much….if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

You can't have the United States opposing the peace process, because the peace process is what the United States is doing, by definition. And if anybody is opposing the United States, then they're opposing the peace process.

The historical roots of these differences between Europe and the United States are familiar. Centuries of conflict imposed a nation-state system in Europe, and the experience of World War II convinced Europeans that they must abandon their traditional sport of slaughtering one another

where there is no question of justice, just the question of who's going to win a struggle to the death, then I think the proper human reaction is: call it off, don't win either way, try to stop it

In the final analysis there can be no solid foundation for peace in the world so long as the super-Powers insist on taking unilateral military action whenever they claim to see a threat to their security"91—or, we may add, a threat to the perceived self-interest of dominant social groups.

vamos a poner fin a la raza humana, o la humanidad renunciará a la guerra?».

I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.

Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

the rain was a fine thing. She often preferred it to the warm slant of sun and the clear brilliance of cloudless blue skies. The rain was a soft gray curtain, tucking her away from the world.

She kept to herself because solitude soothed her.

While the bells rang and echoed, she sat near the edge of the water. Here was peace, she thought, and joy. She would never, never take either for granted. She would remember to give something back every day. Even if it was just a heel of bread for the gulls. She would tend what she planted. She would remember to be kind, and never forget to offer a helping hand.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.