7,293 Quotes About Peace

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.

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.

I like peace and quiet, and it would be completely lost.

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.