Quotations
Peace
Turn a deaf ear to the things that disturb your peace of mind.
- Jesus Christ
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
- Benjamin Franklin
For him who has completed the journey, for him who is sorrowless, for him who from everything is wholly free, for him who has destroyed all ties, the fever of passion exists not… He is like a pool, unsullied by mud; to such a balanced one, life’s wanderings do not arise. Calm is his mind, calm is his speech, calm is his action, who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.
- Dhammapada
Peace won by compromise is usually a short- lived achievement.
- Winfield Scott
May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; in states and in the lands of the potentates; in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.
- Virchand Gandhi
True peace is not merely the absence of war; it is the presence of justice.
- Jane Addams
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
- Eugene O'Neill
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
- Karl Marx
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
- John Lennon
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- Winston S. Churchill
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