936 private quotes tagged peace

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” — Helen Keller

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“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.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” — Buddha

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“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” — Buddha

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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” — Nelson Mandela

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“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.” — Ronald Reagan

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“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” — Nelson Mandela

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“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.” — Harry S. Truman

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“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” — George Eliot

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“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” — John F. Kennedy

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“We make war that we may live in peace.” — Aristotle

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“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” — André Gide

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“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.” — John Lennon

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“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.” — John Lennon

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“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” — William Shakespeare

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