Quotes About Peace

How could the war have any semblance of reality when you found yourself sitting under a plane tree in a playground, in the provincial calm of an early afternoon?

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice.

It's a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that's what gets lost in all that Noise.

But it's obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them.

Let the battle for peace commence

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry.

No one can provide the heart it's own peace; you have to find it yourself.

Mistress Coyle agreed, and Simone set to work, planning the whole thing with the absolute focus on capturing a Spackle and sending it back with a message of peace. Which seems strange after we've killed so many of them to do it, but it's been obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them.

It's like a rule of life that yer automatically happier when you don't gotta worry about something.

A little knowledge could be a large comfort.

The house was quiet when he got inside. Why wouldn't it be? He was alone.

But war can't be personal," I say, almost asking it. "If it's the person that'll end the war," Ben says. "Then it's not personal, it's universal.

A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. "The words of a sage," he says, "in the voice of a hick.

it's been obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them. Monsters of men, I think. And women.

Haven musta been a comfortable place, a place where men weren't fighting every day just to survive. Maybe too much comfort was the problem.

I want a world where you can live and be happy.

I do it all the time now, reaching for the silence, making the thoughts and memories go away, and most of the time it works on the outside, too.

A peace that blacked yer eye," I say. "A peace that split yer lip.

I turn back to the man. Back to Ben. He is mine, I think. If there is peace, he is mine. Mine to kill.

We negotiated peace with them the first time, my girl, because we were in a position of strength. That's how wars work, that's how truces work. We show them we've got more power than they imagine and they're more willing to make peace.

They're fighting a war over who can be more peaceful.