Quotes About Peace

There is a biblical phrase "an eye for an eye," a philosophy of revenge, not justice. But Mahatma Ghandi warned that in a world ruled by an eye for an eye, soon the whole world will be blind.

It has been said by Kariba Ekken, a seventeenth-century mystic; 'If you would foster a calm spirit, first regulate your breathing; for when that is under control, the heart will be at peace; but when breathing is spasmodic, then it will be troubled. therefore, before attempting anything, first regulate your breathing on which your temper will be softened, your spirit calmed.

Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war, is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health; for in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate, and manners corrupt.

Since war has ceased to be the moving force in the world, men have become more tender one to another, and shrink from what they used to inflict without caring; and this is not so much because men are improved (which may or may not be in various cases), but because they have no longer the daily habit of war--have no longer formed their notions upon war, and therefore are guided by thoughts and feelings which soldiers as such--soldiers educated simply by their trade--are too hard to understand.

The English have discovered pacific war. We may not be able to kill people as well as the French, or fit out and feed distant armaments as neatly as they do; but we are unrivalled at a quiet armament here at home which never kills anybody, and never wants to be sent anywhere.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

I don't have any beef with any rapper.

The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Often I sit in the lawn and have my morning cuppa amidst the twittering of rare birds.

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

I don't want to be in any rat race.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.

Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger.

I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'

At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.

It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain!

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.