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
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
-Desiderius Erasmus
"Adagia"
Peace - that was the other name for home.
-Kathleen Norris
To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself.
-E'yen A. Gardner
Peace won by compromise is usually a short- lived achievement.
-Winfield Scott
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
-Abraham Lincoln
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
-Scriptures " Anguttara Nikaya"
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 2.70"
World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
-Benjamin Franklin
