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Quotes About Peace

I love when it snows it slows everything down.
~ John Searles
You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'
~ John Shelby Spong
Live as you want and you shall be at peace.
~ John Shors
When you dance, sister, you feel in your heart the blessing of the Goddess, her peace, her kindness. But when you are with him, then the power of the Goddess is in your heart, crashing through you. The Goddess is no thing of stone. The Goddess is breath, desire, despair. She is the green of the brushing leaf, the baby's cry, the lovers bite, the fragrance of the rose. You feel the Goddess moving through you.
~ John Speed
We sleep in many tents,
~ John Speed
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
~ John Steinbeck
Today I had set aside for spading. Now there is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. You turn a spade full and then carefully knock all the lumps to pieces and you go on for hours without thinking about anything.
~ John Steinbeck
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
~ John Steinbeck
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
~ John Stossel
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~ John Stuart Mill
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
~ John Stuart Mill
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~ John Stuart Mill
Ought we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocation, make no wars?
~ John Stuart Mill
Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.
~ John Stuart Mill
Restless, he begs for storms, As though in storms there is rest.
~ John Sweeney
Putin is a rational actor inside a bunker, so deep, so deprived of light and information, that he is pulling levers without understanding how the modern world is responding, without understanding that some of his levers at least are no longer working, without understanding that invading countries at peace is what the Nazis did.
~ John Sweeney
Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in your families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it [does not] dwell anywhere else
~ John Taylor
We can toast the soldier without honoring the war.
~ John V. Denson
I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.
~ John Vance Cheney
No one understands like Jesus When the days are dark and grim. No one is so near, so dear as Jesus; Cast your every care on Him.
~ John W. Peterson
Si vis pacem, para bellum," Gray
~ John Walker
True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.
~ John Waters
A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves.
~ John Weigel
And while in one sense love conquers all, war nonetheless remains the governing force in world affairs.
~ John Welwood