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Peace Quotes

John F. Kennedy, Shakespeare, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama and Isaac Herzog lead, which makes the page heavy on speeches. For older sources, Byron’s The Bride of Abydos (1813) has the line about a conqueror who makes a solitude and calls it peace. Keats, in Hyperion (1819), has the days of peace and slumberous calm fled, and Albert Schweitzer, in Kulturphilosophie (1923), says man will not himself find peace until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things.

Flagged: Patrick Henry’s “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?” and Publilius Syrus on providing in peace what we need in war are both disputed. A passage on creating chaos through psychopolitics, credited to Lavrentiy Beria, is marked misattributed.

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To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth."

Anthony de Mello One Minute Wisdom (1989)

The advocators of peace, the proponents of love should be much more determined, much more strong willed. They might try to deter us from our path, deviate us from our way but we should continue with determination and strong will.

Adnan Oktar

The only thing I can say is this: Only through permanent and faithful cooperation between the United States, Great Britain, and Russia can a lasting peace be secured.

Albert Einstein

Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine,
And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.

Pythagoras

God loves without limit and this puts a loving person most securely at peace.

John Ruysbroeck The Spiritual Espousals (1340)

We have to continue dreaming of peace.

Isaac Herzog

"Old age is a peace of the deep forest."

Juraj Jurjević Zimzelene starine (1983)

It is the duty of all and of all the parties involved to continue believing in peace and to do our utmost to attain peace in our region.

Ezer Weizman

They will make a desert and call it peace.

Vittorio Arrigoni Gaza: Stay Human (2010)

One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.

Lewis Mumford

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

Ba Jin

Peace! Following my long-term service, it became clear to me that peace is to be built in peaceful times, rather than in the times of war.

Roger Etchegaray

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Abba Eban

Peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Rush Limbaugh

Above all, meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace that remains stable no matter what happens around us.

Muktananda Where Are You Going? A Guide to the Spiritual Journey (1982)

But why does the Pd leave peace, work, the fight against poverty to others?

Rosy Bindi

The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.

Ehud Barak

Having a common defence does not mean turning Europe into some sort of warmongering entity: it means having a Europe that plays a leading role in politics, a bearer of peace.

Antonio Tajani

"I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace."

Wangari Maathai

I could not lead a happy, peaceful life when the working population was so terribly enslaved.

Alexandra Kollontai The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

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