PEACE QUOTES IV

quotations about peace

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All true conflict should aim at peace.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925

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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims

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Peace without Justice is a low estate,--
A coward cringing to an iron Fate!
But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,--
We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"The Price of Peace"

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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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Peace is the bright star of the world.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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

MITCH ALBOM

The Five People You Meet in Heaven


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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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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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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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. What a beautiful concept. What a rare commodity.

DARRELL HUCKABY

"Peace is all too rare a commodity these days", Online Athens, March 12, 2016


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

THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO

Minima Moralia

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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 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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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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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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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