“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”
Quotes about peace
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“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”
“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”
“That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.”
“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.”
“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.”
“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.”
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”
“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”
“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.”
“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.”
“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
“I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.”