Quotes About Peace

...and torture myself with happy thoughts...

I love the quiet calmness before the world is just waking up. That amazing moment before the chaos of the day starts. Mornings are magical.

[M]ore than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul.

O sweet and healing medicine of troubles.

Music is the medicine of a troubled mind.

Music is said to be the rejoicing of the heart: Music comforteth the mind, and feareth the enemy.

Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature.

Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.

Sewing mends the soul.

A bed without a quilt is like a sky without stars.

Tomorrow will come They'll go back to their chore... But tonight they've forgotten their feet are so sore. And that's what the wonderful night time is for.

Night — the quiet of solitude — the silence of loneliness

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

But the truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race. Hence, we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. The Prince of Peace, under whose stainless banner we rally, came not to destroy, but to save, even the worst of enemies.

...marching in line and file to the strains of music... This heroism on command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism — how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

Peace is the father of friendship.

I like to believe that the people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. I think people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.

We have all taken risks in the making of war and in the going into wars. Is it not time that we should take some risks to secure peace? So long as we think of peace in terms of war we shall never get peace.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. People don't fight for the reasons they give for it after they have got into the war; they fight because something has happened; because a train of circumstances has happened that puts their nerves on edge which makes them unhappy in their suspicions; which makes them feel unsafe and insecure until by a continuation of that mentality they come to the conclusion.

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy; and Common-wealth, the mother of Peace, and Leisure: Where first were great and flourishing Cities, there was first the study of Philosophy.

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good-will exert upon events in the political field. But however that may be, and whatever fate may have in store for us, yet we may rest assured that without the tireless efforts of those who are concerned with the welfare of humanity as a whole, the lot of mankind would be still worse than in fact it even now is.