Peace Quotes

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

Gustav Heinemann

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Schell

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Desmond Tutu

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

Stephen King

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Desmond Tutu

Peace is produced by war.

Pierre Corneille

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luther

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

Paul Robeson

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

John Ruskin

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

Elle Macpherson

Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.

Orson Scott Card

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles Franklin Kettering

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

David Borenstein, October 26, 19

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas Kempis

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Thomas Kempis

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Thomas Kempis

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for peace through strength has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Christopher Hitchens

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

George Michael