Peace Quotes

Peace

A selection of Peace Quotes and quotations.

Peace is a state of mutual harmony between people or groups. It is the absence of hostility and in an international context, the opposite of war.

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  1. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. - William Shakespeare
  2. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mohandas Gandhi
  3. Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. - Benjamin Franklin
  4. First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. - Thomas Kempis
  5. I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. - Georges Clemenceau
  6. I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  7. If Christ, in fact, said "I came not to bring peace but a sword," it is the only prophecy in the New Testament that has been literally fulfilled - Robert Green Ingersoll
  8. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. - Napoleon Bonaparte
  9. If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. - Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
  10. Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
  11. Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors - Elbert Hubbard
  12. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. - Thomas Jefferson
  13. Peace begins with a smile. - Mother Teresa
  14. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Buddha
  15. Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. - John Greenleaf Whittier
  16. Peace is costly but it is worth the expense - African Proverb
  17. Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away. - Robert Fulghum
  18. Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it - Unknown
  19. Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading. - Unknown
  20. We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God - Thomas Merton
  21. We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. - A. J. Muste
  22. Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace - Thomas Jefferson
  23. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. - Peace Pilgrim
  24. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein
  25. You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. - Geraldine Ferraro

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