If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.
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.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues.
Peace is a matter of education more largely than of legislation; although the latter is necessary.
I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.