Quotes About Peace

Parce que ma bouche se tait, pensez-vous que mon coeur se repose?

Ah! que ce qu'on appelle bonheur est chose peu étrangère à l'âme et que les éléments qui semblent le composer du dehors importent peu!

Everything which formerly distressed me is now a delicious pleasure.

C'était une âme et un corps où n'entrait jamais l'aiguillon.

Tityrus smiled.

The priest accepted me, I accepted the priest, so everything went off smoothly.

In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.

And I want one day of respite, one day off, one day in which no new bodies are piled up, one day in which no new agony is added to the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask you for less--it is so little. And how could you offer me less: it is so little. Even in wars, there are days of truce. Go and organize a truce. Stop your side for one day. I want a twenty-four-hour truce during which there is no rape.

At 11:30 at night we went out into the meadow to watch the moon through the mist. It was unbelievably beautiful.

Despite everything, a balanced, independent, lonely way of life can give the peace that is vital. I must look for peace. I must start to do meditation seriously—there I go, thinking again in Italian terms —and Buddhism.

In his opinion, scientists could play a role by obstructing the material preparations for war – refusing to undertake any research on armaments – but what was required ultimately to remove the antecedents of war was opposition to 'the state, particularly one's own state, in so far as it is an organ for war'.8

The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any wars, nor to have reduced the frequency with which wars have broken out, nor to have made the wars that have broken out less brutal. In fact, several murderous wars have been fought recently among people who speak 'the same language' in real terms.

general amorality of the weapons business in their disdain for any kind of control over the arms trade, their dislike of attempts to promote peace, and their willingness to use bribes.

I'm in this business for the defence of humanity,' he explained. 'You have to prepare for war to make peace.

Workers, take your place every day at the feet of Jesus, in the blessed peace and rest that come from the knowledge—I have no care, my cares are His! I have no fear, He cares for all my fears.

Fear and hope are generally thought to be in conflict with each other, in the presence and worship of God they are found side by side in perfect and beautiful harmony. And this because in God Himself all apparent contradictions are reconciled. Righteousness and peace, judgment and mercy, holiness and love, infinite power and infinite gentleness, a majesty that is exalted above all heaven, and a condescension that bows very low, meet and kiss each other.

Be silent before God and let Him bless you.

would, by whatever means, make the multitudes of His dear children who are still living divided lives

Him alone brings the joy unspeakable and full of glory. Oh, let each of us who has begun to taste the

The rest is in Christ, and not something He gives apart from Himself, and so it is only in having Him that the rest can really be kept and enjoyed. It

One person after another came up and said his mother was at peace. His mother's friends: each with her own peculiar spiked or curled white hairdo, like a dahlia show.

As with almost every sunset, but with this one in particular: shut the fuck up.

Sir, I hope you feel safe here.

Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.