Peace Quotes - Page 38

My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.

One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved… The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle… Without struggle there is no life.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

Peace has no borders.

Coexistence and personal peace are at the heart of global peace and harmony.

I appreciate all that I am and all that I have. Stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you do have.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.