Quotes About Peace

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

A little girl lay flung back in her mother's lap as though sleep had struck her with a blow.

Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.

Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest.

I've longed for fulfillment and all I find is torment. I had to choose between peace and passion. I chose passion, fool that I was!

only the truly detached can understand what is meant by "detachment"

Dicen que existe la paz en los verdes campos del Edén. Hay que morirse para averiguarlo.

There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen

And the truth is, there may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen.

Don't worry about anything—pray about everything instead.

The Good World Project. This too made Winter smile his wintry smile. "To silence the voices of hate that divide us—this is not controversial, this is simply the right thing to do. To direct the resources of all nations toward humanity's shared objectives—this is not controversial. It's the right thing to do. To heal the planet from the wounds inflicted on her . . .

We all want the same thing, I guess. Killers or no, good or bad. We all want to be free. We all want to go home.

He throws all the blame on the Jews and the Reds and Eden with his people in the Foreign Office and other politicians, all of whom he would have liked to put up against a wall… if (the Germans) bombed England effectively this could bring peace. He (the Duke of Windsor) seemed very much to hope that this would occur. He wants peace at any price.

No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

It was like, oh, we've found the still, dead center of things. This is the quiet middle place where nothing can be done.

The inglorious arts of peace.

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

This man accepted his loss a long time ago, now he's just trying to make sure it's okay to put it all to rest.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

Pacificism was rife at the time Ã¢â'¬â€œ 11.6 million Britons signed the League of Nations' 'Peace Ballot' in 1934–5 Ã¢â'¬â€œ and it was far easier psychologically for people to portray Churchill as a warmonger

The whole world reveres / the Hero of France / He is the God of War / He is the Angel of Peace.'11

Had the German Army been opposed by the French and British forces stationed near by, it had orders to retire back to base and such a reverse would almost certainly have cost Hitler the chancellorship. Yet the Western powers, riven with guilt about having imposed what was described as a 'Carthaginian peace' on Germany in 1919, allowed the Germans to enter the Rhineland unopposed.