Quotes About Peace

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.

On the right of Israel to exist and to defend itself, there is no opposition in Israel.

I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

By God, war is not an option for two nuclear countries.

If we want the next generation to be born into a better world, we only have one option. And that is strong multilateralism, with the U.N. System at its core.

Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

We ought to disarm Germany completely.

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.