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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
10 more quotes from Heraclitus
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
7 quotes from Abraham Maslow
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
81 other quotes from William Shakespeare
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
6 views from Ulysses S. Grant
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
11 quotes from Charlie Chaplin
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
6 sayings from Ulysses S. Grant
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
4 sayings from Marvin Gaye
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
81 other sayings from William Shakespeare
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
70 more quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
38 views from William Hazlitt
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
4 other quotes from Paul Robeson
But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
4 quotes from Paul Robeson
Let us have peace.
6 quotes from Ulysses S. Grant
Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
4 more quotes from Marvin Gaye
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
5 more views from Lester B. Pearson
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
5 more views from Lester B. Pearson
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
5 sayings from Nikita Khrushchev
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
12 more thoughts from George Herbert
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
4 more quotes from Paul Robeson
Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.
4 quotes from Paul Robeson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
26 thoughts from Harry S. Truman
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
5 more quotes from Moshe Dayan
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
46 thoughts from John F. Kennedy
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
53 more views from Honore de Balzac
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
33 quotes from Thomas Huxley
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
11 quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
21 quotes from Karl Marx
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
135 other views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
21 quotes from Malcolm X
I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
5 quotes from Moshe Dayan
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
2 other sayings from Joseph Heller
Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?
3 other sayings from Lorraine Hansberry
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
21 quotes from Malcolm X
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
31 thoughts from Helen Keller
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
11 wisdom & wit from Thomas Mann
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
47 other quotes from George Orwell
But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.
3 other sayings from Robert Falcon Scott
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
2 quotes from Anna Akhmatova
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
14 quotes from Thomas Hardy
Peace is produced by war.
15 more thoughts from Pierre Corneille
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
5 more views from Alexis Carrel
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
3 wisdom & wit from Richard Cobden
We will not have peace by afterthought.
15 quotes from Norman Cousins
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
13 quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
3 quotes from Dorothy Thompson
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
8 more quotes from Benito Mussolini
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
14 wisdom & wit from Robert A. Heinlein
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
6 quotes from Gustav Heinemann
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
13 quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.
6 thoughts from Gustav Heinemann
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
6 quotes from Gustav Heinemann
To awake from death is to die in peace.
16 more quotes from Douglas Horton
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
5 more wisdom & wit from Maria Montessori
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
5 other views from Irving Babbitt
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
18 other quotes from Mother Teresa
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
4 thoughts from Meir Kahane
Peace begins with a smile.
18 quotes from Mother Teresa
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
22 more views from William Feather
Capitalism is war socialism is peace.
4 more sayings from Karl Liebknecht
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
4 other views from Karl Liebknecht
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
12 other sayings from Bernard Baruch
Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.
12 more wisdom & wit from Bernard Baruch
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
10 quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
20 more thoughts from Herbert Hoover
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
7 other thoughts from Swami Sivananda
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
2 other wisdom & wit from Georges Clemenceau
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
90 other views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you want peace work for justice.
7 other sayings from Pope Paul VI
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
26 thoughts from Theodor Adorno
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
27 other views from Kin Hubbard
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
27 more sayings from Kin Hubbard
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
60 more views from H. L. Mencken
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
4 views from Arthur Henderson
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
3 more wisdom & wit from David O. McKay
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
10 thoughts from Ludwig von Mises
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
10 sayings from Ludwig von Mises
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
10 sayings from Ludwig von Mises
Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.
5 other wisdom & wit from James Thomson
Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.
10 more quotes from Ludwig von Mises
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
10 views from Ludwig von Mises
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
4 thoughts from Arthur Henderson
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
10 sayings from Ludwig von Mises
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
4 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Henderson
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
10 quotes from Ludwig von Mises
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
10 quotes from Ludwig von Mises
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
17 quotes from John Lennon
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
9 views from Hannah Arendt
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
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.
17 other sayings from John Lennon
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.
33 more thoughts from Dwight D. Eisenhower
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
17 other quotes from John Lennon
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.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
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.
30 thoughts from Eleanor Roosevelt
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace is its own reward.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
15 other sayings from Desiderius Erasmus
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
33 more views from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
7 quotes from Matthew Henry
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
36 wisdom & wit from Theodore Roosevelt
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
17 views from John Lennon
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
24 wisdom & wit from Adlai E. Stevenson
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
2 more sayings from Alfred Nobel
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
11 more thoughts from Graham Greene
Making peace is harder than making war.
24 thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
24 thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
6 quotes from Georg Buchner
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
24 quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
6 other sayings from Georg Buchner
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
2 quotes from Oliver Tambo
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
11 views from Henry Van Dyke
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
52 quotes from George Eliot
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
18 thoughts from Baruch Spinoza
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
25 sayings from C. S. Lewis
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.
22 sayings from Andre Gide
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
32 more views from Martin Luther
Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
32 quotes from Martin Luther
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
18 other views from Baruch Spinoza
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
29 more thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
2 more wisdom & wit from James Montgomery
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
9 other views from Pope John XXIII
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
3 more views from Leon Trotsky
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
52 sayings from Albert Camus
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
74 sayings from Winston Churchill
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
4 more quotes from Margaret Mitchell
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
11 quotes from Aneurin Bevan
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
2 more sayings from Stefan Zweig
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
11 wisdom & wit from Jawaharlal Nehru
The purpose of all war is peace.
2 sayings from Augustine of Hippo
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
3 sayings from Andre Malraux
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
11 more views from Jawaharlal Nehru
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
4 more views from George C. Marshall
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
7 more quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
75 sayings from Benjamin Disraeli
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
5 thoughts from Black Elk
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.
7 wisdom & wit from William E. Gladstone
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
14 other quotes from Jim Morrison
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
3 quotes from Frank B. Kellogg
I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
3 thoughts from Frank B. Kellogg
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
14 other wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
3 sayings from Anna Freud
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.
5 quotes from Anwar Sadat
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
2 other wisdom & wit from Julien Benda
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
7 other thoughts from Samuel Smiles
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
19 other views from Woodrow Wilson
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
4 quotes from Morihei Ueshiba
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
5 quotes from Max Lerner
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
12 wisdom & wit from Thomas Merton
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
15 sayings from Moliere
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
45 quotes from Thomas Fuller
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
11 quotes from Douglas MacArthur
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
6 more wisdom & wit from Tacitus
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
15 views from Albert Schweitzer
We make war that we may live in peace.
75 other views from Aristotle
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
19 more wisdom & wit from Anton Chekhov
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
3 quotes from Black Kettle
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
30 other thoughts from Virginia Woolf
A bad peace is even worse than war.
6 more quotes from Tacitus
Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
2 sayings from Christopher Love
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
12 thoughts from Thomas a Kempis
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
14 sayings from Charles de Montesquieu
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
3 more sayings from Zebulon Pike
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
5 wisdom & wit from Douglas William Jerrold
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
2 quotes from William McKinley
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
3 other views from U Thant
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
5 thoughts from Douglas William Jerrold
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
47 more quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
24 wisdom & wit from James Russell Lowell
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
7 other quotes from Georges Bernanos
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
30 views from George Washington
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
30 wisdom & wit from George Washington
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
45 other quotes from John Ruskin
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
14 views from Bertolt Brecht
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
20 wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
13 views from Francois Rabelais
Peace without justice is tyranny.
3 sayings from William Allen White
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
2 views from Ugo Betti
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
4 views from George Ade
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
5 other quotes from Omar N. Bradley
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
17 wisdom & wit from Chief Joseph
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
16 sayings from Erich Fromm
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
6 other thoughts from Phyllis McGinley
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
9 other quotes from Andrew Jackson
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
8 sayings from Yitzhak Rabin
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
6 more thoughts from Grover Cleveland
Give peace a chance.
8 more wisdom & wit from Yitzhak Rabin
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
8 more quotes from Yitzhak Rabin
I believe it is peace in our time.
2 views from Neville Chamberlain
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
8 wisdom & wit from Yitzhak Rabin
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
8 more views from Yitzhak Rabin
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
6 quotes from Grover Cleveland
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
2 sayings from A. J. P. Taylor
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
8 wisdom & wit from Yitzhak Rabin
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
8 sayings from Yitzhak Rabin