Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
-Ronald Reagan
Quotations
Peace
Peace begins when expectation ends.
-Sri Chinmoy
"Perfection and Transcendence"
Supporting one’s parents, cherishing spouse and children and a peaceful occupation; this is the greatest blessing.
-Scriptures "Sutta Nipata 262"
He who is too sure in time of peace, will often show himself to be downcast or fearful in time of war.
-Jesus Christ
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"
To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself.
-E'yen A. Gardner
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
-Karl Marx
If an evil man comes and creates a disturbance, you should hold your peace. You must not angrily upbraid his; then he who has come to curse you will merely harm himself.
-Scriptures "Sutra of Forty-two Section 7"
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"
Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
