Peace Quotes - Page 9

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.