PEACE QUOTES VI

quotations about peace

Peace quote

Peace is not simply the absence of war or a "feeling state (usually fleeting) that is marked by the absence of inner turmoil." Rather it is an idealized and probably universal view of human relationships that is seldom, if ever, fully realized in daily affairs. As such, peace is quite different from its semantic opposite, war, which is all too real.

DONALD TUZIN

"The Spectre of Peace in Unlikely Places"


A culture of peace invites us to engage our hearts. It encourages us to slow down our knee-jerk reactions by feeling before we think and then thinking before we act. Compassion means to feel another's suffering, and a culture of peace brings such empathy to both conversations and systems.

BOB MORSE

"What is a 'culture of peace'?", Daily Tidings, March 22, 2016


It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Diary

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Peace would be a tremendous development ... but it would also lay bare the rotten structural dynamics that have festered under 50 years of internal strife.

STEVEN COHEN

"For Colombia, After Peace Is When the Trouble Begins", New Republic, April 1, 2016


The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

State of the Union Address, January 9, 1958

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

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From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated--ever.

ELIE WIESEL

"Is World Peace on the Horizon?", The Watchtower, April 15, 1991

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If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Be a People Person

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What is it about peace that leaves everyone talking about it but so very few ever finding it? Is it merely the absence of conflict as we all learn to live without making waves in the ocean of society? Or perhaps it is really just some vague and esoteric inner feeling of contentment and tranquility that only a very few will ever find while the rest of us wallow in misery, hatred and bitterness.

THOM MOLLOHAN

"To know God is to know peace", Point Pleasant Daily Register, March 24, 2016


To fight for peace is a contradiction. The regimes that we ourselves impose are not peace for the one who must endure them, be that one a child, a pauper, a foreigner, a family, or a nation.

RAIMON PANIKKAR

Cultural Disarmament


A culture of peace is a new paradigm. It's a new model for society, a new way of being, of interacting, of resolving conflict. Crafting a culture of peace is challenging in a world where language has tended to reflect a culture of war.

BOB MORSE

"What is a 'culture of peace'?", Daily Tidings, March 22, 2016


That nation that regards the avoidance of war as the highest good regardless of the price exacted for peace in its honor, its rights, its vital interests, is a nation both wretched and contemptible and cannot long endure.

FRANK KNOX

"We Must Fight for Our Liberties"


Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

DAVID BALDACCI

The Camel Club

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Peace will come when there is realization that only under a reign of law, based on righteousness and supported by the religious conviction of the brotherhood of man, can there be any hope of a complete and satisfying life. Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be triumphant.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925

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To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

MORIHEI UESHIBA

The Art of Peace

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It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

ALAN MOORE

Watchmen


Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Biglow Papers

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My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES

Hawksong


Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout for joy, daughter of Jerusalem for your king is coming just and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt. No more chariots in Ephraim. No more horses in Jerusalem for he will do away with them. The warrior's bow shall be broken when he dictates peace to the nation. He will reign from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.

BIBLE

Zechariah 9:9-10

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Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nobel Prize acceptance speech, December 10, 1964

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