936 private quotes tagged peace

“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” — Leon Trotsky

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“I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.” — Studs Terkel

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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” — Honore de Balzac

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“War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.” — Andre Malraux

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“We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.” — George W. Bush

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“To secure peace is to prepare for war.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.” — Adam Smith

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“When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.” — Charles Stanley

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“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.” — Robert Johnson

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“We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.” — Marianne Williamson

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“Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.” — Norman Borlaug

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“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.” — John Paul Jones

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“He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.” — Moliere

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“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.” — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.” — Robert Southey

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“A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.” — Kwame Nkrumah

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“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.” — Gerald Jampolsky

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“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.” — Joe Gold

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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.” — Pythagoras

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