Quotes About Peace

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

as long as we still judge and accuse, the heart of the matter is not reached. And so we should not only remember the dead, but also forgive the living. Just as we reach out our hand to the dead, across all graves, so we reach out to the living—across all hatred. And when we say: Honored be the dead, so we should add: And peace to all the living who are of goodwill.

He also believed strongly in reconciliation rather than revenge; he once remarked, "I do not forget any good deed done to me, and I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

And so we should not only remember the dead, but also forgive the living. Just as we reach out our hand to the dead, across all graves, so we reach out to the living--across all hatred. And when we say: Honored be the dead, so we should add: And peace to all the living who are of goodwill.

Come potrebbe essere bello il mondo!

Peace of mind is not a purpose but a result of our ethical behavior.

truly wanted to see east and west merge peacefully, but was unfortunately saddled with a populace that for the most part preferred religious rhetoric and inflammatory speech over enlightenment and liberty.

the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The Greeks compose great orations, and measure The heavens so well they can predict the rising of the stars. But you, Romans, remember your great arts; To govern the peoples with authority, To establish peace under the rule of law, To conquer the mighty, and show them mercy once they are conquered. -Virgil, Aeneid VI, 847-853

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.

But you, Roman, must remember that you have to guide the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to graft tradition onto peace, to shew mercy to the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.

It is for men to make wage war and make peace; for that task is theirs.

When, soon, they join in their happy wedding-bonds— and wedded let them be—in pacts of peace at last, never command the Latins, here on native soil, to exchange their age-old name, to become Trojans, called the kin of Teucer, alter their language, change their style of dress. Let Latium endure.

War will not save us

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.

Talvolta penso che il paradiso sia leggere continuamente, senza fine.

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.