Peace Quotes - Page 130

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

I think war is a dangerous place.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

When you stop all thought, the battle is won. Everything is still and peaceful. You will come to see the eternal voidness of all things. You will see that nothing is, really.

. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.