Quotations
Peace
Supporting one’s parents, cherishing spouse and children and a peaceful occupation; this is the greatest blessing.
- Scriptures
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Virginia Woolf
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
- William Shakespeare
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
True peace is not merely the absence of war; it is the presence of justice.
- Jane Addams
First keep yourself in peace and then you will be able to bring others to peace. The peaceable man does more good than one who is very learned.
- Jesus Christ
To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself.
- E'yen A. Gardner
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- George Carlin
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