Quotes About Peace

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

that a man must be active in order to pass through activity to perfect calmness. Inactivity

You don't need an iron fist if you aren't a pacifist.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

f there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

The drive to convert people's minds and hearts has caused more grief, more suffering, more loss of life than any desire for property, riches, or even the necessities of survival.

The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.

I will arise and go now. To a place called Innisfree. And I shall have some peace there, For peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning To where the cricket sings

As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then just now, the very last time-and all the times in between. The deep aching grief I knew I would feel would come soon enough, but at that moment mostly what I felt was peace, secure in the knowledge that by living my life the way I had, everything had come down to this moment. I had fulfilled my purpose.

As I sat in the sun on the wooden dock that jutted out into the pond, I knew this to be true: my name was Buddy, and I was a good dog.

En ese momento lo que sentía era paz. Y estaba seguro de que mi vida, todo lo que había hecho, me había conducido hasta este preciso y justo momento. Había cumplido con mi razón de ser.

It's easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy.

His Bolshevik revolution had not brought peace to Russia, but a terrible civil war in which 28 million Russians had lost their lives. The principles of socialism which Lenin had forced upon the people had not brought increased production as Marx had promised, but had reduced production to a point where even in normal times it would not adequately clothe nor feed half the people.

they promised to satisfy humanity's two greatest needs: the need for universal peace and the need for universal prosperity.

Marx and Engels visualized a day when there would be unity among men instead of opposition, peace instead of war. Such a hope, of course, violated their own theory of dialectics which says nothing in nature can be at rest—everything is a unity of opposing forces.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are contentThat he held the proper opinions for the time of year;When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called "trying to relax." Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of "trying" or "making.

It's difficult to have fun or to achieve concentration when your ego is engaged in what it thinks is a life-and-death struggle.

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings...