Peace and Humanity Quotes III

"Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. "
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"If you want peace, work for justice."
(Pope Paul VI)

"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. "
(Pope John XXIII)

"Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew "
(John Greenleaf Whittier)

"Peace will be victorious."
(Yitzhak Rabin)

"If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now."
(Sister Chän Khöng)

"Peace, development and environmental protection are interdependent and indivisible. "
(Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1993 )

"Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent revolt of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution
of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty. "
(Bishop Oscar Romero)

"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."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

"There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity"
( Elise Boulding)

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. "
(Hyman G. Rickover )

"There is no way to peace; peace is the way."
(A.J. Muste)

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
(Franklin D. Roosevelt )

"Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread."
(Pablo Neruda)

"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. "
(Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit)

"This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. "
(Peace Pilgrim)

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. "
(George Bernard Shaw)

"Five enemies of peace inhabit us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
(Francesco Petrarch )

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. "
(John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses)

"To reach peace, teach peace."
(Pope John Paul II )

"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
(William Hazlett)

"The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

" Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
(Albert Einstein)

"Here then, is the problem we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
(The Russell-Einstein Manifesto)

" In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.
(Albert Schweitzer)

" Peace of mind is attained not by ignoring problems, but by solving them.
(Raymond Hull)

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
(Baruch Spinoza)

"If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
(Dale Carnegie)

"The Great Peace towards which people of good will throughout the centuries have inclined their hearts, of which seers and poets for countless generations have expressed their vision, and for which from age to age the sacred scriptures of mankind have constantly held the promise, is now at long last within the reach of the nations. For the first time in history it is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad diversified peoples, in one perspective. World peace is not only possible but inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet.
("Promise of World Peace" by the Universal House of Justice)

" How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
(Marcus Aurelius)

"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
(Cicero)

""Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous"
(George Bernard Shaw)

" Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
(Adlai Stevenson)

" War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
(Thomas Hardy)

"The opposite of war is not peace; it's creation.
(Jonathan Larson)

"I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
(Mother Theresa)

" Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make ust he gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
(E.B. White)

" All works of love are works of peace.
(Mother Theresa)

" If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.
(Chinese Proverb)

"Nonviolence doesn't always work
but violence never does.
(Madge Michaels-Cyrus)

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
(Mother Theresa)

" Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
(UNESCO Constitution)

" Peace is always beautiful
(Walt Whitman)

" We, Veteran's for Peace, view peace as a positively active and creative process which requires courage, commitment, endurance, vigilance, and integrity. Peace is a struggle toward unity, and it is characterized by an absence of violence in all its forms, including discrimination based on gender, age, race, religion, social and economic status, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Those who labor for peace are called peacemakers because they tirelessly pursue nonviolent solutions, work for economic and social justice, celebrate diversity, and strive to build relationships between adversaries through education, conflict mediation, and humanitarian relief. We recognize that peace is both a means and end simultaneously, and that it is never finally or fully achieved. This is because change and growth require some degree of tension or conflict. Historically, such conflict has provided the impetus for military solutions. Thus we, Veteran's for Peace, strongly believe that the greatest obstacle to peace is militarism with its reliance on violence and war. We further believe that peacekeeping action should only be accomplished by a legitimate international body.
(Committee to Define Peace, Veterans for Peace)

" Peace, in the sense of absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
(The 14th Dalai Lama)

" Peace is always beautiful.
(Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass)

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"The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. "
(Anne O'Hare McCormick )

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. "
(Maria Montessori)

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
(John Muir )

"Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world."
(Robert Muller )

"Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal."
(Yehudi Menuhin)

"It is possible to live in peace."
(Mahatma Gandhi)

"Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence. "
(César Chávez)

"We must become the change we want to see."
(Mahatma Gandhi)

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. "
(Mahatma Gandhi)

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
(Ben Franklin)

"It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded."
(Federico Mayor)

"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. "
(Lyndon B Johnson)

"As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest."
(Archibald MacLeish)

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God."
(Matthew, V:9)

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. "
(Thomas Merton)

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. "
(César Chávez)

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
( Desiderius Erasmus )

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one."
(John Lennon)

"Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws – to the strength of the spirit."
(Mahatma Gandhi)

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