Quotes About Peace

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Do thyself no harm! for we are all here!

Love is stronger than violence.

Die wahren Siege sind die Stillen.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

This is true religion—knowing there is a bond among all living things. Having understood this, there is nothing to mourn, because even though nothing can ever be retained, nothing is ever lost.

Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.

Every human longs for peace and love.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Forgive and Forget. Something every person should do. Why have an enemy when you can have a Best Friend !

Of this bad world the loveliest and the bestHas smiled and said "Good Night," and gone to rest.

Call no man happy. Call no man happy until he has gone down to his grave in peace.

What I always say is, wars begin in man's time, but they end in God's time.

The dead do not negotiate.

his greatest ambition for England is this: the prince and his commonwealth should be in accord. He doesn't want the kingdom to be run like Walter's house in Putney, with fighting all the time and the sound of banging and shrieking day and night. He wants it to be a household where everybody knows what they have to do, and feels safe doing it. He says to Rice, 'Stephen Gardiner says I should write a book.