Quotes About Peace

We are old; you cannot understand that, that you will or can ever reach a time when you can bear so much and no more; that nothing else is worth the bearing; that you not only cannot, you will not; that nothing is worth anything but peace, peace, peace, even with bereavement and grief—nothing!

La mejor manera de considerar a las personas, negras o blancas, es considerarlas tal y como ellas creen que son, y luego dejarlas en paz. Fue entonces cuando me di cuenta de que un negro no es tanto una persona como un modo de ser; una especie de reflejo invertido de los blancos entre los que vive.

I had this vague idea that I could be completely happy as an idler, even a beggar, around the water.

he chose, not the disquieting road to serenity, but the serenely narrow path to eventual and total derangement.

There's folks you just don't need. You're better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain't in it.

There was something oddly restful about the fireflies. He couldn't put his finger on it but he drew comfort from it anyway. The way they'd seemed not separate entities but a single being, a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion over the provinces of night.

Before something happens in the realm of calmness, we do not feel the calmness; only when something happens within it do we find the calmness.

You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that

And Inigo felt, for the first time since the dying, such happiness. It had fled from him, happiness, and when you spend years without, you forget that no blessing compares . . .

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

And oft I harked into the night of the Land; but there was nowhere any sound, or disturbing of the aether, to trouble me.

In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

non-resistance, when successful, turns enemies into friends;

A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy.

Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.

Perhaps the most important truth I've learned across the whole of my life is that it's only when I yield to the river and embrace the journey that I find peace.

If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't any of us have to be afraid anymore.

Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.

And now, as the fateful summer of 1944 approached, they realized that with the Red armies nearing the frontier of the Reich, the British and American armies poised for a large-scale invasion across the Channel, and the German resistance to Alexander's Allied forces in Italy crumbling, they must quickly get rid of Hitler and the Nazi regime if any kind of peace at all was to be had that would spare Germany from being overrun and annihilated.

story of the Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and induce the former King of England to work with Hitler for a peace settlement with Great Britain.

But what were these hopes in which he was disappointed? What were these wishes in which he was frustrated? What was that faith that was abused? They were surely among the most noble and benevolent instincts of the human heart—the love of peace, the toil for peace, the strife for peace, the pursuit of peace, even at great peril and certainly in utter disdain of popularity or clamor.

If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world," he finally said, "I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls!

I want now to fulfill the vow which I made to myself five years ago when I was a blind cripple in the military hospital: to know neither rest nor peace until the November criminals had been overthrown, until on the ruins of the wretched Germany of today there should have arisen once more a Germany of power and greatness, of freedom and splendor.

And Treitschke outdoes Hegel in proclaiming war as the highest expression of man. To him "martial glory is the basis of all the political virtues; in the rich treasure of Germany's glories the Prussian military glory is a jewel as precious as the masterpieces of our poets and thinkers." He holds that "to play blindly with peace… has become the shame of the thought and morality of our age.