Peace Quotes

A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be law. It is, therefore, impossible to be a law enforcer and behave morally, for the same reason one can't be a moral car-jacker.

~ Larken Rose

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

~ Paul Cornell

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

~ Noam Chomsky

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

~ Suzy Kassem

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

~ Herodotus

Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.

~ William Shakespeare

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

~ Thomas Jefferson

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.

~ Mary Doria Russell

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

~ Thomas More

Think what it implies when you say that a country needs leaders. In your day-to-day life, you interact with all sorts of other individuals. And that's all society is: the collective name for lots of INDIVIDUALS. But for some inexplicable reason, we're taught to believe that one huge, arbitrarily chosen assortment of individuals (the citizens of one human livestock farm--I mean, country) need some control freaks acting as intermediaries in order to interact with a different arbitrarily chosen assortment of individuals (the citizens of some other human livestock farm--I mean, country). Because gee, how could I and some random person in the middle of China possibly leave each other alone if we didn't each have a gang of narcissistic sociopaths claiming to represent us? Oh, wait a minute. That's exactly how and why pretty much ALL wars happen: because different gangs of power-happy psychos pit their pawns against each other in violent conflict, while claiming to represent subsets of humanity. One more example of how government is a problem posing as its own solution.

~ Larken Rose

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

~ Mike Norton

The words we choose to use when we communicate with each other, carry vibrations. The word ‘war’ carries a whole different vibration than the word ‘peace’. The words we use are showing how we think and how we feel. The careful selection of words, helps to elevate our consciousness and resonate in higher frequencies.

~ Grigoris Deoudis

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

~ Leo Tolstoy

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

~ Mark Skousen

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

~ Widad Akreyi

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

~ Widad Akreyi

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

~ Widad Akreyi

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

~ Widad Akreyi

Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.

~ Toba Beta

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

~ Jeannette Rankin

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

~ Eknath Easwaran

If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?The dragon was silent for a long time after this question. And at last he said: It just came over me. I don't know why. It just came over me, listening to the battling shouts and the war-cries of the earth - I got excited, I wanted to join in.

~ Ted Hughes

A bad peace is worse than war.

~ Tacitus

The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.

~ Hermann Hesse

It's going to be a hard time; we can count on that. But with all the misery, what opportunities to show mercy and brotherly love in our land, which has sinned so greatly against love. And patience! For now is the time when the victors, in the blind triumph of their victory, are likely to make mistakes. But that's not our concern, for we shall only be the sufferers, not the agents of suffering. What a power for peace will lie in our own powerlessness if we can only glimpse in it the sign of grace!

~ Margot Benary-Isbert

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

~ Harrison Ford

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.

~ A.l. Kennedy

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

~ Dennis Kucinich

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

~ Toba Beta

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?

~ Aberjhani

Now the valley cried with anger, Mount your horses draw your sword. And they killed the mountain people, so they won their just reward. Now they stood beside the treasure, on the mountain dark and red. Turned the stone and looked beneath it. Peace on earth was all it said. Go ahead and hate your neighbor,go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end. There won't be any trumpets blowing come the judgment day. On the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.

~ Dennis Lambert

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

~ Jimmy Carter

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

~ Philippa Gregory

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri