PEACE QUOTES III
quotations about peace
The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.
BARACK OBAMA
Nobel Lecture, December 10, 2009
In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.
FREDERIC CLEMSON HOWE
Why War
Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions. But we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Young India, November 19, 1931
Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
O that all human hearts might join the strain;
Then Hate, and Bigotry, and Sin would die;
Then Peace would reign and wear its olive crown,
And War with blood-stained feet no longer track
Earth's fair domain, or wave its crimson flag.
Then Pride would lay its flaunting mantle by;
The cry of Hunger cease--the oppressor's rod
Would scourge no more, but man be linked to man
In one unbroken chain of brotherhood.
ALBERT LAIGHTON
"The Love of God"
All people have a desire for world peace in their hearts, and through compassion, they can come together to take action and make the world a more peaceful place.
MUHAMMED ALHASSAN YAKUBU
"JCI Ghana Launches Peace Is Possible Campaign", News Ghana, March 11, 2016
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.
BABA HARI DAS
official website
Peace. What a beautiful concept. What a rare commodity.
DARRELL HUCKABY
"Peace is all too rare a commodity these days", Online Athens, March 12, 2016
The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Nobel Lecture, June 16, 2012
We discover peace, we unveil it. Peace is a discovery, not a conquest. It is the fruit of a revelation.
RAIMON PANIKKAR
Cultural Disarmament
Peace is priceless, but not at any price.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Peace is the bright star of the world.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without,
Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget
The morning's transient shower.
EMMA LAZARUS
"Afternoon"
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.
GESHE KELSANG GYATSO
Transform Your Life
Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
The Mission Song
This is a time for action -- not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
My Day
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
ALBERT CAMUS
"After Hiroshima: Between Hell and Reason", Combat, August 8, 1945
Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow
And be not happy like a naked star,
Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow,
Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
"Premonition", A Hermit of Carmel