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Quotes About Peace

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
~ Pico Iyer
Le temps est venu de consacrer des moyens à la vie et non à la mort avec les armements qui n'en finissent pas de se perfectionner.
~ Unknown
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself
~ Plato
From all these, then, they will be finally free, and they will live a happier life than that men count most happy, the life of victors at Olympia.
~ Plato
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
~ Plato
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles,—are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.
~ Plato
What else can one do in the time before sunset?
~ Plato
L'uomo libero ha sempre tempo a sua disposizione per conversare in pace a suo agio. Egli passerà come faremo noi nel nostro dialogo, da un argomento all'altro; come noi egli lascerà quello vecchio per uno nuovo che lo attiri di più; e non si preoccupa affatto se la discussione andrà per le lunghe, ma solo di conseguire la verità.
~ Plato
Love sees no enemies…fear does.
~ Plato
aos seres humanos a paz, ao mar a calma; Aos ventos o repouso, e na nossa dor o sono.
~ Plato
Los Estados para ser dichosos no tienen necesidad de murallas, ni de buques, ni de arsenales, ni de tropas, ni de gran aparato; la única cosa de que tienen necesidad para su felicidad es la virtud.
~ Plato
You don't make peace with your friends.
~ Unknown
In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers. Thank You.
~ Unknown
For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity's progress toward justice and peace.
~ Primo Levi
Scrivendo trovavo breve pace e mi sentivo ridiventare un uomo, uno come tutti, nè martire nè infame nè santo, uno di quelli che si fanno una famiglia, e guardano al futuro anzichè al passato. - Il sistema periodico
~ Primo Levi
How can one hit a man without anger?
~ Primo Levi
Felice l'uomo che ha raggiunto il porto, Che lascia dietro di sé mari e tempeste, I cui sogni sono morti o mai nati. Che ha deposto il carico e si è tersa la fronte, E riposa al margine del cammino. Non teme né spera né aspetta, Ma guarda fisso il sole che tramonta.
~ Primo Levi
So we strap on weapons that work—weapons divinely authorized for our success in spiritual warfare: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace. Then we take up the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, as well as the sword—the very Word of God. But
~ Priscilla Shirer
And that is where you want to be. Because in His arms, you'll know the beauty of His peace—"the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension" and which guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7).
~ Priscilla Shirer
When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. (Prov. 16:7)
~ Priscilla Shirer
He just flat went ahead and "tore down the dividing wall of hostility" (Eph. 2:14 hcsb) that had stood between them for dozens and dozens of long, gray-haired generations. He wasn't appealing for peace but was proclaiming peace—"peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near" (Eph.
~ Priscilla Shirer
The storm raged all around him, but he couldn't feel it.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Horas non numero nisi serenas.
~ Publius Vergilius Maro
The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.
~ R.T. Kendall