Quotes About Peace

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.'1 Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

Maybe it's a kind of freedom too. To stay home.

God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

When you ask them what's wrong with the world, they never say there is not enough religion. They say there is not enough peace, prosperity, security, comfort, health care, or environmental responsibility. In other words, not enough human control over nature and human nature.

Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

No happiness on earth can be deeper than the happiness that comes from our willing and active submission to God's will even when he wills suffering.

he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

we forgive those who trespass

The idea of resolving conflicts by killing people (which is what war is) is not a just thing, a just idea. In that sense there is no such thing as "just war". But to wage a given war may be a just action.

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as doves and redwings came and went on the warm wind, the leaves dancing, the clouds flying…the child was not observing; he was at rest in the very center of the universe, a part of things, unaware of endings and beginning, still in unison with the primordial nature of creation, letting all light and phenomena pour through.

This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment.

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them severely about the head and shoulders.

In worrying about the future, I despoil the present; in my escape, I leave a true freedom behind

But hadn't she heard that for someone who's made up their mind, everything becomes so much lighter? It made sense, in a way. Like suddenly nothing costs you anything anymore?

Religious people are often the most violent.

Bollocks!' said Burgess. 'They're shit-disturbers. You ought to know that by now. Why do you think they're interested in a nuclear-free Britain? Because they love peace? Dream on, Constable.

Satchidananda.

What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues relating to peace and justice.

There are plenty of violent people, but for any randomly selected person today the chances of meeting a violent death at the hands of his or her fellow humans is lower now than it has ever been in human history.

For all I know, war is "natural" to human beings—it certainly seems to have been a preoccupation for many societies, in very different circumstances, over a long period of history—but I have no intention of going to war to make sure that I act in accordance with nature.