Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
I’m happy and at peace with where I am at life.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Defending peace is the duty of all.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
Music is something that should give you peace.
Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us – not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet – something I don’t get very often.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
Walter Mercado means love, peace and understanding, means compassion.
Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies’ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can’t have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
I feel that my father’s greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
