True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.
Tara Brach
There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time – at long last – be established and maintained.
Cordell Hull
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Nelson Mandela
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg Buchner
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover
God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
Samantha Smith
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg Buchner
China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.
Hu Jintao
I would point out that Japan’s proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
Hideki Tojo
But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself – not afraid.
Robert Falcon Scott
I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.
Studs Terkel
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von Clausewitz
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Grover Cleveland
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
Alice Cooper
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
Ignatius of Antioch
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
Federica Mogherini
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Muhammad Yunus
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
Wayne Dyer
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It’s the failure of diplomacy. ‘War and Peace,’ ‘A Farewell to Arms,’ ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
David Mamet
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness – and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I’m a human trying to make it through in this world.
Ellen DeGeneres
Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
Gal Gadot
We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
Lal Bahadur Shastri