936 private quotes tagged peace

“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.” — Mary Wortley Montagu

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“I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.” — Sylvester Stallone

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“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” — Anton Chekhov

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“Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.” — King Abdullah II

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“The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.” — Sargent Shriver

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“Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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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“I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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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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“The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.” — Lord Chesterfield

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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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“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.” — Jimmy Carter

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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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“A conqueror is always a lover of peace.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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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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“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.” — Ludwig von Mises

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

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“My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.” — Jimmy Carter

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

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“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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“As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.” — Paul Robeson

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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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“Making peace is harder than making war.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.” — Louis Farrakhan

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