Quotes About Peace

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea.

What grace I have is enough.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it breaks walls down.

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

Her beauty is a mastery of peace.

Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score