If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
-Desmond Tutu
Quotations
Peace
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
-Eugene O'Neill
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to to bring peace to all.
-Dalai Lama "The XIV Dalai Lama"
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
-Gautama Buddha
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
-John Lennon
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
-Desiderius Erasmus
"Adagia"
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
-Ronald Reagan
Supporting one’s parents, cherishing spouse and children and a peaceful occupation; this is the greatest blessing.
-Scriptures "Sutta Nipata 262"
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 "Dhammapada"
If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the heart.
-Lao Tzu "Lao Tzu"
