7,293 Quotes About Peace

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered....

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.