Quotes About Peace

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.

Having achieved something so special as peace, it is criminal to throw it away on a whim.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

How can Bono, having graced concert stages for over two decades, draped in the white flag of peace and screaming 'No More War' at the top of his lungs contemplate praising and back slapping Tony Blair?

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.