Quotes About Peace

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

a great silence settled over the mountain.

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

I lay and looked up through a mesh of twigs at the sky. It was very big, making me and my world look very small. There was something about that i liked. The words and tensions that cluttered life at 309, and made it hard to concentrate at school, slid away to nothing in that big sky

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Waldeinsamkeit, Die mich erfreut, So morgen wie heut In ewger Zeit, O wie mich freut Waldeinsamkeit. Waldeinsamkeit Wie liegst du weit! O Dir gereut Einst mit der Zeit. Ach einzige Freud Waldeinsamkeit! Waldeinsamkeit Mich wieder freut, Mir geschieht kein Leid, Hier wohnt kein Neid Von neuem mich freut Waldeinsamkeit.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

Peace builds, war destroys. Nations are fundamentally peaceful because they recognize the predominant utility of peace. They accept war only in self-defence; wars of aggression they do not desire. It is the princes who want war, because thus they hope to get money, goods, and power. It is the business of the nations to prevent them from achieving their desire by denying them the means necessary for making war.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Religious wars are the most terrible wars because they are waged without any prospect of conciliation.

Within a world of free trade and democracy there are no incentives for war and conquest. In such a world it is of no concern whether a nation's sovereignty stretches over a larger or a smaller territory. Its citizens cannot derive any advantage from the annexation of a province. Its territorial problems can be treated without bias and passion; it is not painful to be fair to other people's claims for self-determination.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

People without rights are always a menace to social order. Their common interest in removing such barriers unites them; they are prepared to resort to violence because by peaceable means they are unable to get what they want. Social peace is attained only when one allows all members of society to participate in democratic institutions. And this means equality of All before the Law.