Quotes About Peace

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you are not happy in one place, chances are you won\'t be happy anyplace.

God appears as a gentle rustling, not as a package of fire, floods, and earthquakes.

Long periods of peace and quiet favor certain optical illusions. Among them is the assumption that the invulnerability of the home is founded upon the constitution and safeguarded by it. In reality, it rests upon the father of the family who, accompanied by his sons, appears with the ax on the threshold of his dwelling.

From this it may be seen at once what is the most important quality a nation must possess when its position in the world compels it to reckon with the waging of great wars. This quality is more than ever, in peace as well as in war, the proof of its fitness to survive. It is the capacity for the speedy development of a large programme.

A critical attitude, like activity, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our time. Both are interdependent. If the critical attitude should dwindle, there would be more peace and less intelligence, to the benefit of the essential. Neither criticism nor activity, however, can steer the course in such a direction - this means that higher forces are involved.

Obitus vitae otium est (Death is life's rest).

To us, too, the machine is something external, something we that we have set up outside ourselves. But it is our indispensable resource, whether in peace or war; and for that reason we endorse it and accept it.

Largos períodos de paz promueven ciertas ilusiones. Una de ellas es creer que la inviolabilidad del hogar se basa en la Constitución. En realidad, se basa en el padre de familia que se encuentra en su puerta, rodeado de sus hijos, hacha en mano

Words had lost their meaning; even war was no longer war. Monteron would tum in his grave if he could hear what they called war nowadays. After all, peace was no longer peace.

Al parecer se considera paradójico el que un guerrero hable de la paz. Frente a eso cabe decir que su firma es la única que otorga crédito a esa palabra. No en vano los antiguos hacían que a los tratados de paz asistiesen sus dioses nacionales de la guerra, representados por el sumo sacerdote.

No es en las horas más ruidosas cuando el Horror recorre el campo de batalla.

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.

Nos encaminamos a la playa de los pescadores, despejada por la noche. Las barcas en seco alineadas ofrecían un apoyo para la espalda y entre ellas toda la quietud que hacía falta. Nos sentamos en la arena muy cerca, hombro con hombro, no nos entraban ganas de hablar. Algunas boces salian de las habitaciones de los pescadores. Del mar no, que hacía cosquilas a la orilla.

E' una specie di sabato, la terra si riposa, nessuno la lavora. Noi siamo la neve, Iosèf, che ne dici? Noi ricopriamo Ièshu fino al tempo assegnato. [La faccia delle nuvole]

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

One of the charms of Africa, is the long settled periods of pure unclouded sky, in which the sun rises and sets with no flaming splashes of vivid colours, but by gentle, imperceptible gradations of pure light, waning or waxing.

At any moment, a human being can receive new energy from the wellspring of the universe. However, to receive this pristine energy, our thoughts need to connect with it. We can do this with pure prayer or with peace-loving thoughts such as "I am so grateful! Everything will definitely get better!" or "May peace prevail on Earth!