Quotes About Peace

Wars don't change how people are, Archer. They just kill a bunch 'a folks and when it's over, people go back to being how they always were. Most good, some not so good.

For DeHaven it was well worth the extra money to a federal budget that had always allocated more to war than it ever did to peaceful purposes. For a fraction of the cost of one missile he could purchase on the open market every work the library needed to round out its rare books collection. Yet politicians believed that missiles kept you safe, whereas actually books did, and for a simple reason. Ignorance caused wars, and people who read widely were seldom ignorant.

Gentleness clears the soul Love cleans the mind And makes it Free. - Fill Your Heart

Between 1000 C.E. and 1945, the longest period of uninterrupted peace in Europe was a fifty-one-year stretch between the Battle of Waterloo and the Austro-Prussian War. That tranquil period came amid the industrial revolution, as millions moved from farm to city. Was it harder, for a while, to find soldiers? Or did people feel too busy to fight?

We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.

If you truly believed that Jesus was praying fervently for you right now, how much of your anxiety would flee? Would it melt before the passionate pleas you make to your Lord?

The wilderness is a place of rest—not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening. He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.

You'll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.

As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens to bite his tongue.

No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.

You'll fight with each other, of course," she told him as they danced, "but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.

Life's much more pleasing when you don't have to spend all of your time thinking.

La vita è molto più gradevole se non si passa tutto il tempo a pensare.

No hemos venido a esta vida a lograr metas, hemos venido para recordar que nuestra verdadera esencia es de paz y tranquilidad.

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

The really desolate areas can get pretty crowded, of course, sometimes, so it's good to get there early, get as much wandering as you can in before noon.

It seems significant that we don't want things to be quiet, ever, anymore.

ragweed,wild oat,vetch,butcher grass,invaginate volunteer beans,all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand on your cheek...

The happy pleasure of the person alone, yes..?

Subjects locked away in institutions and written off as casualties of peace.

We await, I predict, the hero of non-action, the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras whose blood sings with retrograde amines.

Nourish it with good works, give it peace in solitude, get it strength in prayer, make it wise with reading, enlighten it by meditation, make it tender with love, sweeten it with humility, humble it with penance, enliven it with psalms and hymns, and comfort it with frequent reflections upon future glory.