936 private quotes tagged peace

“Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.” — Raul Julia

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“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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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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“We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.” — George W. Bush

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“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.” — George Santayana

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“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.” — Tacitus

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“I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

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“The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.” — Desmond Tutu

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“If you want peace work for justice.” — Pope Paul VI

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“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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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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“In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.” — Desmond Tutu

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“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.” — Benito Mussolini

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“Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.” — Daniel Pipes

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“The purpose of all wars, is peace.” — Saint Augustine

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“I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.” — Desmond Tutu

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“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.” — George C. Marshall

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“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.” — Nikita Khrushchev

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“Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.” — Douglas Feith

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“Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.” — Kin Hubbard

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“War makes thieves and peace hangs them.” — George Herbert

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“Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.” — Noel Coward

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