Quotes About Peace

In my opinion, Israel has the right to its security in as much as the Palestinians have the right to resist occupation. Israel has the power in this perpetual stalemate, as it also has the power to break it and begin a meaningful peace process.

It is impossible to bless and judge at the same time. So hold constantly as a deep, hallowed, intoned thought the desire to bless, for truly then shall you become a peacemaker, and one day you shall behold, everywhere, the very face of God. And, of course, above all, do not forget to bless the utterly beautiful person you are.

I speak of a Canada where men and women of aboriginal ancestry, of French and British heritage, of the diverse cultures of the world, demonstrate the will to share this land in peace, in justice and with mutual respect.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Humanity wants no more war.

He did not think of God nor of his family but remarked to himself, 'Okay, I'm dying.

THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTION Sometimes, exhausted with toil and endeavour, I wish I could sleep for ever and ever; but then this reflection my longing allays: I shall be doing it one of these days.

No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

The very points of my character that are most commended mark me as unfit to reign: love of retirement and of studies inconsistent with business, a passion that has become inveterate in me for peace, for unwarlike occupations, and for the society of men whose meetings are but those of worship and of kindly intercourse, whose lives in general are spent upon their farms and their pastures.

I asked him if Buddhists believe we all get a specific destiny. "We don't think there's a specific place in your life to go. Everybody's destiny is to become an enlightened being and reach the everlasting state of mind.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

There would be plump artichokes ready for him in the garden, trees heavy with plums, soft roses, the river flowing, and between the crab-Apple trees the hammock hanging like a smile in a landscape as familiar to him as the face of his mother.

The goal in meditation is not to exorcise the psyche of disturbing thoughts and emotions, nor to suppress them, but to hold them in non-reactive, friendly awareness. They may not necessarily disappear from the practitioner's psyche, but through consistent observing and witnessing of them, they cease to trouble him or her.

Whatever our desires may be, getting the object of our desire is not the same thing as contentment, which comes from within. In the end, we'll never find complete contentment, a perfect sense of peace, if our mind isn't content and at peace.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

War is a defeat for humanity.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.