936 private quotes tagged peace

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

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

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“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.” — Heraclitus

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“Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.” — Red Cloud

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“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.” — Thomas Merton

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“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.” — Gerry Adams

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“Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.” — Hannah Arendt

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“As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.” — Arthur Henderson

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“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.” — Richard Pryor

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“Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.” — Elie Wiesel

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“My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.” — Ziggy Marley

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“As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.” — Andrea Dworkin

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“Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.” — Armstrong Williams

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“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.” — James Russell Lowell

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“In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.” — Wangari Maathai

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“What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.” — Chris Evans

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“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.” — Robert Indiana

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“We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.” — Thomas Merton

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“Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.” — Marianne Williamson

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“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.” — Richard Cobden

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“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.” — Mother Teresa

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“We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.” — King Hussein I

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