Peace Quotes - Page 81

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

My experience is the opposite.

Our ultimate destination is mental peace.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ.