Peace Quotes - Page 90

War is the science of destruction.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Peace on earth begins with birth.

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

There is no situation so bad that it cannot be accepted patiently, with an open, accommodating, and peaceful heart.

All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.