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
He who is in perfect peace suspects no man. But he who is discontented and disturbed is agitated by various suspicions; he neither has rest himself, nor does he permit others to rest.
-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"
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
-Eugene O'Neill
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
-Ronald Reagan
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
-Gautama Buddha
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
-Thích Nhất Hạnh
"The Art of Power"
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
-Pope John Paul II
Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
-Benjamin Franklin
