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Quotes About Peace

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
The desire for order is the only order in the world.
~ Georges Duhamel
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
~ Thomas a Kempis
There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.
~ Ernest Sosa
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I have zero desire to be in the limelight.
~ George W. Bush
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.
~ Marie Corelli
He who desires naught will always be free.
~ Unknown
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
~ Ronald Reagan
It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
~ Lord Byron
Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
~ Umar
The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.
~ Gautama Buddha
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik
We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
~ Jane Addams
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
~ Barack Obama
Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.
~ Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
~ Max Ehrmann
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
~ Khalil Gibran