Quotes About Peace

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

War settles nothing.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.

I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

To be fully present with what is, is to be content... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary.