Peace Quotes - Page 29

• There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" by Black Elk, 1953.

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• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, War, Knowing

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

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• There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, 4th Of July, Violence And War

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Work, Ubuntu, Achievement

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• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

  Maria Montessori

  War, Educational, Ubuntu

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

  Dorothy Thompson

  War, Ubuntu, Creative

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• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

  Aesop

  War, Tyrants, Political

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

  Isabel Allende

  People, Eras, Violent

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.58, University of Texas Press

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• The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Bible, Religious, Men

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• I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Encouraging, Ubuntu

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• Peace without justice is an impossibility.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Impossibility

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76

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• God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

  Jean Anouilh

  Army, Analysis, Lasts

  L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) p. 120

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Battle, Half

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Creativity, Thinking, Personality

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Government, Order, Race

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

  T. S. Eliot

  Native American, Grandchildren, Thinking

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• The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young.

  Oscar Romero

  Meaningful, Ubuntu, Expression

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• On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Passion, Priorities, Promise

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• Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Heart, Humanity

  Daniel Berrigan (2007). “No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

  James Agee

  Life, Children, Responsibility

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

  Stockard Channing

  Ideas, Humanity, World

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• When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Money, Compassion

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• We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Determination, Humble, Hands

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