PEACE QUOTES IV

quotations about peace

Peace quote

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Inaugural Address, March 4, 1905

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A peaceful man must fight
For that which peace demands,--
Freedom and faith, honor and right,
Defend with heart and hands.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"The Peaceful Warrior"

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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


Better to keep peace than to gain a victory.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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You have peace ... when you make it with yourself.

MITCH ALBOM

The Five People You Meet in Heaven


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


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

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Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?

RONALD REAGAN

address to United Nations general assembly, September 21, 1987

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I devoutly believe in the reign of peace and in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium. The fatalistic view of the war function is to me nonsense, for I know that war-making is due to definite motives and subject to prudential checks and reasonable criticisms, just like any other form of enterprise. And when whole nations are the armies, and the science of destruction vies in intellectual refinement with the science of production, I see that war becomes absurd and impossible from its own monstrosity. Extravagant ambitions will have to be replaced by reasonable claims, and nations must make common cause against them.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Moral Equivalent of War

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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Condemned Playground

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Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

State of the Union Address, January 9, 1958

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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

HOSEA BALLOU

Edge-Tools of Speech

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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

MARTIN LUTHER

On Marriage

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The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without,
Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget
The morning's transient shower.

EMMA LAZARUS

"Afternoon"

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Peace is the only battle worth waging.

ALBERT CAMUS

"After Hiroshima: Between Hell and Reason", Combat, August 8, 1945

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Peace is not something we work for. When we try our whole lives to build our own sphere of peace, we will always fall short. That is because peace is nothing more than a gift of God's grace. We do not earn peace, but God gives peace anyway.

PATRICK MABILOG

"Jesus promises peace, but why can't I feel it?", Christian Today, April 6, 2016


Lead them beside still waters because you know how badly they need still waters.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

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Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

BARACK OBAMA

Nobel Lecture, December 10, 2009

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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO

Minima Moralia

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