Peace Quotes - Page 6

It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

Run to the rescue with love/and peace will follow

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.

So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

Music can change the world.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.