Quotes About Peace

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

It was that time of the night when most of the drunks were already home in bed. The crickets were done chirping, and the birds weren't ready to herald sunrise.

Para multiplicar el tiempo necesitamos tener más presencia de Dios. Entonces trabajaremos con más paz e intensidad y con más ganas de hacer bien las cosas. Nuestro tiempo se multiplicará como resultado porque hacemos las cosas bien, con más interés y ganas de hacerlo correctamente. De esta forma nos distraeremos menos y perderemos menos el tiempo».

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

What kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. [Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]

My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system.

Nella chiara mattina domenicale camminavo lungo Olive Street. La città sembrava deserta, la strada era tranquilla. Mi fermai ad ascoltare. Sentivo qualcosa. Era il suono della felicità. Era il mio cuore che batteva dolcemente, ritmicamente. Un orologio, ecco cosa era, un piccolo congegno della felicità.

The enormous bloodlettings that nations visited on one another in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would surely convince all but the lunatic that appeals to motherland and fatherland had no place in a modern society.

Sometimes in life, you make a mistake and there's no buts and no explanations … There's no peace in 'I'm sorry, but.' You can't find peace until you truly understand that the only thing to say is, 'I'm sorry,' period. ~ John Lucas, as quoted in 'The Punch' by John Feinstein

Jefferson reflected, "I think of her (a college infatuation) perhaps too much for my peace of mind. " Nevertheless, he was robbed of his considerable verbal powers when he got the chance to speak to the object of his affections.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

There was nothing he could do about it, so there was no point worrying about it.

Dat begrijp ik. Dit is een vredig plaatsje en u ziet de rust hier niet graag verstoord.' Erak glimlachte terug, maar een haai had nauwelijks valser kunnen glimlachen. 'Nee, integendeel. Dit is een buitengewoon gewelddadige stad en als uw mannen voor moeilijkheden zorgen, gaan zonder pardon hun koppen eraf.