Quotes About Peace

Well," said Winslowe, moving over to plant himself behind the wheel, "it don't matter much what any of us are, just so we get along with one another. If some of the nations would only take a lesson from some small neighborhood like ours—a lesson in how to get along—the world would be a whole lot better.

You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe, and I don't mind being what you call "half dead." In fact it's what I like. The twice I was in love I took an awful beating and I don't want it again! I want you to stop it Don't devil me, Joe. I beg you, don't devil me...

The right word at the right time stops wars, cures heartaches, mends bridges, sweeps away barriers. The wrong word is the dropped match that lights a forest fire. 

If we are one world then the only patriotism can be for the world.

A humble life is not so impressive as compared to a more lavish life. But there is serenity in the simplicity of living.

A rewarding life is aging without hatred or envy.

There are still many affluent and famous people who believe in the simplicity of life. They live in peace without wanting it or needing it.

There is no boredom or denial of faith in solitude, only privacy of priorities.

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. —DRIEU LA ROCHELLE,

Aron's conclusion was an epigram: "Peace impossible, war unlikely.

In whichever way a democratic system might be sick, terrorism does not heal it, it kills it. Democracy is healed with democracy. —VIRGINIO ROGNONI,

fraternité: "Be my brother or I will kill you.

In the course of the last forty years, the only part of the world that has enjoyed peace is the continent divided between two zones of political civilization both of them armed with atomic bombs. —RAYMOND ARON, LES DERNIÈRES ANNÉES DU SIÈCLE (THE LAST YEARS OF THE CENTURY), P. 68

But peace is not a principle: merely a desirable state of affairs.

Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy.

May our Country be always prepared for War, but disposed to Peace

Sometimes your best company is you

Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make sense any more.

Build a far mosque where you can read your soul-book and listen to the dreams that grew in the night.

Solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom.

The beauty of Radical Forgiveness lies in the fact that it does not require us to recognize what we project. We simply forgive the person for what is happening at the time. In doing so, we automatically undo the projection, no matter how complicated the situation. The reason for this is simple, in that the person represents the original pain that caused us to project in the first place. As we forgive him or her, we clear that original pain.

it is essential that we adopt a way of living based not on fear, control, and abuse of power but on true forgiveness, unconditional love, and peace.