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Quotes About Peace

Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
~ Pythagoras
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.
~ Johan Galtung
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.
~ Thomas Sowell
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
~ Thomas Paine
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.
~ Mo Rocca
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
~ Longchenpa
They make a desolation and call it peace.
~ Agha Shahid Ali
For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.
~ Tim Winton
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
God's dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.
~ Marcus Borg
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
~ Jackie Chan
We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.
~ Bob Marley
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
~ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Oh, that peace may come.
~ Queen Victoria
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.
~ Betty Williams
May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.
~ Giacomo Meyerbeer
Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.
~ Benjamin Banneker
If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
~ Tom DeLonge
There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment.
~ Tasha Tudor
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
~ Mahatma Gandhi