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Peace Quotes


"What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don't think through another's brain and you don't work through another's hands. When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life."


"Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace."


"Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another."


"Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence."


"Stop seeking attention from people who don't give you the time of day. Value your time, comfort your spirit, have peace of mind. There are people who love you and care about you.Give your smiles to them."


"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."


"Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking."


"We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace."


"How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana."


"Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.How would that be? Just how would that be?"


"Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me."


"Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason."


"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"


"Knowing who you are is half the peace of accepting yourself."


"Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue."


"Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself."


"Weapons never stay in their boxes. Once a weapon has been manufactured, sooner or later someone will use it. If it were possible to bring about true and lasting peace by force of arms, then we should turn all our factories into weapons factories. But that is impossible. Even though it is difficult to try to bring about peace through inner transformation, it is the only way of establishing sustainable peace in the world."


"The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods."


"To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge."


"Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories."


"Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy."



"Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one's true Self."


"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."


"This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it!"
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