Quotes About Peace

I long for periods without saying anything at all. I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythyms of transience as if into bed.

Most of the time, that is what it feels like here, far away from the war, in the still heart of the tornado. So peaceful, the streets; so tranquil, so orderly; yet underneath the deceptively placid surfaces, a tremor, like that near a high-voltage power line. We're stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we're always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

Pieces for Peace, rescue the Korean poet, ban the bomb. It's just that he's never agreed to do anything before. He wonders why, this time, he has. Not that this enterprise is any more likely to succeed than her other enterprises. But collecting signatures against RCMP Wrongdoing does not at the moment seem any more futile than most other things in his life.

Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

Nothing safer than dead

Sleep is the only rest we get; It's then we are at peace. We do not have to mop away the floor And wipe away the grease.

And it is almost impossible to describe happiness because it is the absence of pain, of loneliness, of despair, yet it is infinitely more than just an absence of anything. It resides in small moments, moments that lose their power in the telling but pin themselves fast to our hearts.

La guerra no es una aberración, algo que es mejor olvidar lo antes posible.

La posibilidad de librar una guerra y la evolución de la sociedad humana forman parte del mismo relato.

War is not an aberration, best forgotten as quickly as possible.

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do..

Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with the piercing sweetness of massed honeysuckle and climbing roses could be so fearful, as shells screamed into the streets, bursting like the crack of doom, throwing iron splinters hundreds of yards, blowing people and animals to bits.

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door. I've never gotten so tired of any one word in my life as 'war,' unless it's 'secession.

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.

The dove is my emblem.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.