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.
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.
Even the best must own
Patience and resignation are the pillars
Of human peace on earth.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace!
“The process of peace and pacification is a work that requires long breath, like a marathon”
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.