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William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

A. J. Muste

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

D. H. Lawrence

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

Saint Francis of Assisi

O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is discord, harmony. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where t

Baruch (?Benedict de) Spinoza

The exact origin of this beautiful prayer remains unknown, it does not appear in any known writings of St Francis. The first known appearance of this inspiring prayer was in 1912 when it was published in the French magazine La Clochette. http://wahidudd

Peter McWilliams

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Ovid	Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

H. L. Mencken

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Dag Hammarskjold

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Oscar W. Firkins

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Geraldine A. Ferraro

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Georges Clemenceau

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Vera Brittain

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Muhammad Ali

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

American Indian Proverb

It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.

Patrick Henry

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the f

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

D. H. Lawrence

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

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Ages,_ St. 30.

Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war. MILTON: Sonnet xvi. Peace was on the earth and in the air.

Eve Denise Curie

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Francesco Petrarch

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.

Patanjali

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.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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)

Dag Hammarskjold

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

A. J. Muste

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

A. J. Muste

There is no way to peace peace is the way.

Peter McWilliams

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Malcolm X

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Georges Clemenceau

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Frederick Buechner

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.'

Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Caitlin Matthews

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.

Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Harry S Truman

The absence of war is not peace.

Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

James D. Watkins

This is an era of violent peace.

Desiderius Erasmus

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Ulysses S. Grant

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Mother Theresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Julia Louise Woodruff

Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.

Juvenal

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Doris Mortman

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Martin Luther

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Geraldine A. Ferraro

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Muhammad Ali

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Dwight D Eisenhower

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

John Andrew Holmes

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

George Herbert

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Nikita Khrushchev

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

William Shakespeare

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in th

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.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

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.

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

"But I believe in peace.. I believe in peace, bitch." - Tori Amos

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.

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation o

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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.

"Peace. Peace. I'd like a piece a that. Ay, know what I mean.."

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

Know God...No peace. No God...Know peace.

There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Find peace in where and what you are.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

Peace through superior swordplay.

Peace Through Digital Harmony

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Man who argue with wife all day get no peace at night.

Man who lay woman on ground have peace on earth.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.

Don't speak now, and forever hold your peace.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

For people who like peace and quiet: A phoneless cord!

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.