Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never, “for the sake of peace and quiet,” deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
George Washington
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes
In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain’t they got no shame
Nikki Giovanni
A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.
Charles Wesley Burns
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus
Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
African
Let us love the world to peace.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
John Lennon
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Ewart Gladstone
Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
Satish Kumar
The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: “Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong
to be put right.”
Carl Schurz
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
James Conrad
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
Tenzin Gyatso
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekov
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
J. Ramsay MacDonald
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
William J. Clinton
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
There is no way to peace, peace is the way.
A. J. Muste
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Francesco Petrarch
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Peace Pilgrim
The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
Vera Brittain
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
J. Ramsay MacDonald
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight Eisenhower
Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Right is more precious than peace.
Woodrow Wilson