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Quotes About Peace

În el pulsa aversiunea profund? a omului înÈ›elept È™i omenos împotriva unui lucru atât de inutil, complet stupid È™i atavic precum r?zboiul. Dintre numeroasele jocuri stupide ale oamenilor, r?zboiul i se p?rea cel mai stupid È™i mai costisitor.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
I shall not importune him with any opinion of my own as to why I, at bottom a contemplative soul asking nothing better than to live in peace and to be able to read and to write, have been condemned to lead such a stormy existence so fraught with upheavals.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Our first response when angered should be to turn away momentarily, mentally or physically, so we can separate the offense from the offender.
~ Lisa Bevere
Forgiveness is essential if we are to guard our hearts with all diligence.
~ Lisa Bevere
There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Solitude is sometimes best society.
~ John Milton
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
~ Leonardo Boff
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.
~ Dalai Lama
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
~ Pope John Paul II
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
~ Dalai Lama
Solitude is sometimes the best society.
~ John Milton
If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.
~ Ram Dass
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.
~ Louis Lecoin
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
~ Coretta Scott King
We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.
~ Betty Williams
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
~ Dalai Lama
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
~ Ludwig von Mises
There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
~ Elsa Triolet
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
~ William Hazlitt
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
~ Terence McKenna
Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar