Quotes About Peace

When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

No victory, no conquest justified a single death, a man starved, frozen, lacerated, a single orphaned child. All war wanted was itself.

I heard the "bam, bam, bam" of a woodpecker high in the top of a box elder snag. The cry of a kingfisher and the scream of a blue jay blended perfectly with the drum like beat. A barking red squirrel, glued to the side of a hackberry tree, kept time to the music with the beat of his tail. Each noise I heard and each sight I saw was very familiar to me but I never grew tired of listening and watching. They were a God-sent gift and I enjoyed them all.

PENSARE ALLA PACE senza PENSARE ALLA POVERTÀ è oggi certamente impossibile.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Quelli che sono in grado di vincere una guerra possono raramente realizzare una pace conveniente, e quelli che possono realizzare una buona pace non hanno mai vinto una guerra.

We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.

Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.

I want the home about me: candles burning, curtains drawn, warmth, tea, friendship, love.

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

Ross pensò: se solo potessimo fermare la vita per un po', la fermerei qui. Non al mio ritorno a casa, non al momento di lasciare Trenwith, ma qui, qui, mentre ci avviciniamo alla sommità della collina, oltre Sawle, il crepuscolo che accarezza i confini della terra e Demelza che cammina canticchiando al mio fianco.

Life is too short to allow little things to fret.

All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath.

Far better now if he had never known. The knowledge served no purpose but to destroy what was left of his peace of mind.

She pushed the bolt across the door and sat abruptly in the first chair. Her romance was over; even though she rebelled against the fact, she knew that it was so. She felt faint and sick and desperately tired of being alive. If death could come quietly and peacefully she would accept it, would sink into it as one sank into a bed wanting only sleep and self-forgetfulness.

Poi, mentre la fiamma moriva lentamente e un oggetto dopo l'altro nella stanza scivolava nelle ombre, [Demelza] si sdraiò e si rannicchiò insieme al cane, sentendo la tensione di lui che si allentava man mano che gli sussurrava parole amorevoli all'orecchio.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: "This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

In our own fevered, changing, and precarious age, where all is in flux and nothing is accepted, we must survey with respect a period when, with only three hundred thousand soldiers, widespread peace in the entire known world was maintained from generation to generation, and when the first pristine impulse of Christianity lifted men's souls to the contemplation of new and larger harmonies beyond the ordered world around them.