Great English Quotes and Aphorisms on peace 2 by famous writers

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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PEACE 2

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

John Lennon (1940-1980, British rock musician)

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon (1940-1980, British rock musician)

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

John Lennon (1940-1980, British rock musician)

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Yutang, Lin (1895-1976, Chinese writer and philologist)

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Georg Christoph Litchenberg

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)

This is a sane, wholesome, practical, working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God; second, that God himself takes on the care of that man; and third, that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.

George MacDonald (1824-1905, Scottish novelist)

As the birth of a country arises may all victory come through peace.

Todd D. Maddocks

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Sidney Madwed

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong Mao (1893-1976, Founder of the People's Republic of China)

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety.. we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.

Jerry W. McCant

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

William McKinley (1843-1901, American President (25th))

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

C. C. Mehta

The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness.

Mary of Mejugorje

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Michael Holmboe Meyer

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Miller (1891-1980, American author)

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

John Milton (1608-1674, British poet)

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

John Milton (1608-1674, British poet)

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Marianne Moore (1887-1972, American poet)

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

John Middleton Murry

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964, Indian nationalist, statesman)

What we need is a generation of peace.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964, Indian nationalist, statesman)

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Peter Nicols (1927-, British playwright)

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Indian Proverb (Sayings of Indian origin)

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Portuguese Proverb (Sayings of Portuguese origin)

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Julius Kambarge Nyerere (1922-, Tanzanian president)

Better to eat beans in peace than to eat meat in distress.

Guatemalan Proverb

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

Basil O'Connor

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII (1881-1963, Italian head of Roman Catholic order)

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI (1897-1978, Italian Pope from 1963-1978)

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)

Do something at its right time, and peace will accompany it.

African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)

If you want to live in peace, you must not tell everything that you know, nor judge everything that you see.

Mexican Proverb (Sayings of Mexican origin)

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Turkish Proverb (Sayings of Turkish origin)

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being, we can do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)

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 (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Helen Schucman

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Rod Serling (1924-1975, American television script-writer)

A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904, Scottish author)

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677, Dutch philosopher and theologian)

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

St. Catherine of Genoa

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226, Italian preacher, founder of The Franciscan Orde)

To many men...the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

George Steiner (1929-, French-born American critic, novelist)

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U. Thant (1909-1974, Burmese diplomat)

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)

Peace is achieved by accepting the things you're not willing to change and changing the things your not willing to accept.

Marilyn Suttle (American speaker, author, and columnist)

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117, Roman historian)

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.