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Quotes About Peace

In short, a strong royal advisor class insists on stopping and thinking. And it tries, I think with growing success in modern times, to direct the wonderful, expansive energy of their society away from aggression and domination. Better to use that energy for creative inventions, exploration, and protection of the planet and the powerless.
~ Elaine N. Aron
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
~ Elayne Boosler
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
~ Elbert Hubbard
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
~ Elbert Hubbard
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
HAPPINESS is not a goal, it is a by-product.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Many of the boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them, day after day, the results of the war. If we do not achieve the ends for which they sacrificed—a peaceful world in which there exists freedom from fear of both aggression and want—we have failed.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Todo el tiempo, día a día, tenemos que continuar luchando por la Libertad de Religión, la Libertad de Expresión y la Libertad para vivir sin miseria, por todas aquellas cosas que deben ser ganadas en la paz, así como en la guerra" (Eleanor Roosevelt)
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.
~ Eleanora Duse
Lies are better than tranquilizers.
~ Elena Ferrante
La culpa la tiene tu cabeza que no sabe calmarse, busca sin cesar una manera de funcionar
~ Elena Ferrante
Watch me until I fall asleep. Watch me always even when you leave Naples. That way I'll know that you see me and I'm at peace.
~ Elena Ferrante
Evocai versi e romanzi come tranquillanti. Forse, pensai, aver studiato mi serve solo a questo: a calmarmi.
~ Elena Ferrante
But her husband was sleeping, he had fallen asleep as if wrapped in a magic cape.
~ Elena Ferrante