| "peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people." »Jawaharlal Nehru |
| "The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death." »Cicero |
| "Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice." »Corazn Cojuangco Aquino |
| "But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in." »D. H. Lawrence |
| "War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." »Francesco Petrarch |
| "Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace." »David Ben-Gurion |
| "peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart." »Patanjali |
| "We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all." »Eve Denise Curie |
| "The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith." »John Foster Dulles |
| "Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive." »Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." »Thomas a Kempis |
| "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." »Malcolm X |
| "Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love." »Frederick Buechner |
| "No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons." »Croesus of Lydia |
| "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having." »Henry Miller |
| "There is no way to peace peace is the way." »A. J. Muste |
| "To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves." »Caitlin Matthews |
| "peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." »Buddha |
| "Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace." »Barbara Hall |
| "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done." »Julia Louise Woodruff |
| "The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war." »Desiderius Erasmus |
| "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." »Doris Mortman |
| "peace if possible, truth at all costs." »Martin Luther |
| "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." »Mother Theresa |
| "The triumph of justice is the only peace." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
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