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
Quotations
Peace
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
-Benjamin Franklin
Peace is a conscious choice.
-John Denver
We can never obtain peace in the world, if we neglect the inner world and don’t make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
He who is too sure in time of peace, will often show himself to be downcast or fearful in time of war.
-Jesus Christ
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 neighbouring communities
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
-Thich Nhat Hanh "Thich Nhat Hanh"
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
-Karl Marx
There’s harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction, regardless of fashion or trend.
-Ted Koppel "Ted Koppel"
That which gives pleasure to one man gives pain to another. That sage who identifies himself with the imperishable Self and stands as a spectator of the mental modifications enjoys supreme peace and infinite bliss.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
