PEACE QUOTES VII
quotations about peace
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.
LAINI TAYLOR
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him who has freed his heart from its lusts and hatreds and dark desires; and he who, without any shadow of bitterness or selfishness resting upon him, and looking out upon the world with boundless compassion and love, can breathe in his inmost heart, the blessing: Peace unto all living things.
JAMES ALLEN
Byways of Blessedness
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
Even in great wars--in Vietnam or in today's Middle East as we battle extremists--weapons are never enough, nor are the billions of dollars being spent. Winning "hearts and minds" is key because that is essential to social cohesion, to finding a common direction, to keeping the peace. Peace, in fact, depends on love. And if war is "hard power" at work, then it should be clear that love is harder still.
DAVID ROTHKOPF
"The Secret Ingredient for Peace", Foreign Policy, March 17, 2016
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
attributed, Eleanor and Franklin