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.
Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility.