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Quotes About Peace

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.
~ Richard M. Nixon
I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity.
~ Unknown
My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.
~ Joni Mitchell
My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.
~ Katherine Center
My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
~ Leila Josefowicz
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
~ Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
~ Dick Gregory
There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.
~ David Livingstone
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.
~ Edith Stein
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
~ Oswald Chambers
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
What is wedlock forced but a hell, an age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss and is a pattern of celestial peace.
~ William Shakespeare
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.
~ Plato
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
~ Eric Gill
A happy family is but an earlier heaven
~ George Bernard Shaw
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.
~ Otto von Bismarck
The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace. -Numbers 6:24-26
~ Bible
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
~ Chief Joseph
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
~ Chief Joseph
We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.
~ Senator John Kerry
There is nothing more beautiful than a woman with a gentle and peaceful spirit.
~ Unknown
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
~ Benito Mussolini
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
~ Leonard Bernstein