PEACE QUOTES VI
quotations about peace
Peace is not simply the absence of war or a "feeling state (usually fleeting) that is marked by the absence of inner turmoil." Rather it is an idealized and probably universal view of human relationships that is seldom, if ever, fully realized in daily affairs. As such, peace is quite different from its semantic opposite, war, which is all too real.
DONALD TUZIN
"The Spectre of Peace in Unlikely Places"
That nation that regards the avoidance of war as the highest good regardless of the price exacted for peace in its honor, its rights, its vital interests, is a nation both wretched and contemptible and cannot long endure.
FRANK KNOX
"We Must Fight for Our Liberties"
Peace is an attribute of the highest power.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Peace would be a tremendous development ... but it would also lay bare the rotten structural dynamics that have festered under 50 years of internal strife.
STEVEN COHEN
"For Colombia, After Peace Is When the Trouble Begins", New Republic, April 1, 2016
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Biglow Papers
The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
State of the Union Address, January 9, 1958
A culture of peace is a new paradigm. It's a new model for society, a new way of being, of interacting, of resolving conflict. Crafting a culture of peace is challenging in a world where language has tended to reflect a culture of war.
BOB MORSE
"What is a 'culture of peace'?", Daily Tidings, March 22, 2016
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Diary
From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated--ever.
ELIE WIESEL
"Is World Peace on the Horizon?", The Watchtower, April 15, 1991
To fight for peace is a contradiction. The regimes that we ourselves impose are not peace for the one who must endure them, be that one a child, a pauper, a foreigner, a family, or a nation.
RAIMON PANIKKAR
Cultural Disarmament
What is it about peace that leaves everyone talking about it but so very few ever finding it? Is it merely the absence of conflict as we all learn to live without making waves in the ocean of society? Or perhaps it is really just some vague and esoteric inner feeling of contentment and tranquility that only a very few will ever find while the rest of us wallow in misery, hatred and bitterness.
THOM MOLLOHAN
"To know God is to know peace", Point Pleasant Daily Register, March 24, 2016
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES
Hawksong
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.
LAINI TAYLOR
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
ALAN MOORE
Watchmen
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout for joy, daughter of Jerusalem for your king is coming just and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt. No more chariots in Ephraim. No more horses in Jerusalem for he will do away with them. The warrior's bow shall be broken when he dictates peace to the nation. He will reign from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.
BIBLE
Zechariah 9:9-10
To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
The Art of Peace
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
GEORGE CARLIN
stand-up routine
If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Be a People Person
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
DAVID BALDACCI
The Camel Club