Quotes About Peace

After a few generations of warfare, though, the fanatics were either killed along with their backups, or were persuaded to modify their positions.  Most of the religious pockets had evolved into low-density lands devoted to agriculture, abundance, popular piety, and toleration. 

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

Es war sogar etwas Tröstliches in dieser toten Welt, denn die Abwesenheit von Leben bedeutet auch die Abwesenheit von Gefahr. Alles Böse geht von den Lebenden aus.

Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace.

Lieber hinsetzen und entspannen als hinspannen und entsetzen.

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Para la gente inflexible es muy difícil alcanzar un estado de paz interior. Más aún, es prácticamente imposible estar cerca de una persona rígida, llámese pareja, compañera o compañero de trabajo o de universidad, y no verse afectado negativamente por ella o él.

El sabio no espera nada, pero no porque ya lo tenga todo, sino porque no teme perder nada.

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,Dream of battled fields no more,Days of danger, nights of waking.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;In halls, in gay attire is seen;In hamlets, dances on the green.Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,And men below, and saints above;For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

Whoever has offended another with insults or harmful words or even a serious accusation must remember to right the wrong he has done at the earliest opportunity.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo. Reduction of conflict by means of a phony "peace" is not a Christian goal. Justice is the goal, and that may require an acceleration of conflict as a necessary stage in forcing those in power to bring about genuine change.

No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities.

The ultimate weakness of violence," observed Martin Luther King, Jr., "is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. ISAIAH 26:3 CHAPTER 1 Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.