If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
—Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900–90) Indian Politician, Diplomat
When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
—Helen Schucman (1909–81) American Psychologist, Christian Author
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Historian, Political Leader, Explorer
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loses.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
What we need is a generation of peace.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian Head of State
There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away!
—Robert Fulghum (b.1937) American Unitarian Author, Essayist, Clergyman
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator
Never, “for the sake of peace and quiet,” deny your own experience and convictions.
—Dag Hammarskjold (1905–61) Swedish Statesman, UN Diplomat
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not—I am not dreaming—it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.
—H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English Novelist, Historian, Social Thinker
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian Head of State
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
—Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State
Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.
—Indian Proverb
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
—Thomas a Kempis (1379–1471) German Religious Priest, Writer
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) Vietnamese Buddhist Leader, Teacher, Peace Activist
A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
—African Proverb
War ends nothing.
—African Proverb
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
—Marianne Williamson (b.1952) American Activist, Author, Lecturer
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
—Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British Head of State, Journalist
Peace is produced by war.
—Pierre Corneille (1606–84) French Poet, Dramatist
Peace lasts until the army comes, and the army lasts until peace comes.
—Russian Proverb
It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State
The Unseen One, featureless, unthinkable, undefinable by name. Whose Substance is the certitude of One Self, in Whom world-existence is stilled, Who is all peace and bliss – that is the Self, that is what be known.
—The Upanishads Sacred Books of Hinduism
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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