Peace Quotes - Page 128

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Peace comes from living a measured life. Peace comes from attending to every part of my world in a sacramental way. My relationships are not what I do when I have time left over from my work. . . . Reading is not something I do when life calms down. Prayer is not something I do when I feel like it. They are all channels of hope and growth for me. They must all be given their due.

...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.

Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

Would you end war? Create great Peace.

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.