Peace Quotes

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

~ Charles Lindbergh

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

~ Baruch Spinoza

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

~ Wayne Dyer

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

~ Mitch Daniels

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

~ Benjamin Netanyahu

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

~ Rand Paul

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

I believe in peace through strength.

~ Chris Gibson

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

~ Herman Cain

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

~ Victor Hugo

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

~ Judith Light

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

~ Patrick Henry

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

~ Joseph Stalin

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

~ Alfred Nobel

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

~ Fran Lebowitz

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

~ Anna Akhmatova

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

~ Brad Pitt

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

~ Malala Yousafzai

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

~ Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

~ Pope John Xxiii

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

~ Jenny Shipley

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

~ Hugo Chavez

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

~ Pankaj Mishra

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

~ Gerry Adams

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

~ Arthur Henderson

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

~ Hideki Tojo

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

~ Andrea Dworkin

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'

~ Yolanda Adams

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

~ Abraham Maslow

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

~ Helen Thomas

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

~ Cherie Lunghi

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

~ John Boyd Orr

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

~ Buddha

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

~ Dada Vaswani

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.

~ Suzanne Weyn

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

~ Bobby Davro