Quotes About Peace

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away

La idea de crear una sociedad pacífica por medio de un conflicto armado parecía estar irremediablemente condenada al fracaso por su misma contradicción.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.