Peace and Humanity Quotes
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
(Archbishop Desmond Tutu )
"Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are."
(Hafsat Abiola)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
(Margaret Mead )
"God is peace, His name is peace, and all is bound together in peace."
(Zohar, Leviticus 10b )
"In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law."
(Kofi Annan)
"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
(Dorothy Thompson)
"To be at one with God is to be at peace ... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul."
( Ralph Waldo Merson)
"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 )
"Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. This is the secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in immediate sense experience, and a stubborn commitment to the future of our grandchildren. Such disciplined love is what has given prophets, revolutionaries, and saints the courage to die for the future they envisaged. They make their own bodies the seed of their highest hope. "
(Ruben Alves, Tomorrow's Child)
"Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace."
(Thomas Aquinas)
"The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds."
(Abraham Lincoln)
"There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace. "
(Kofi Annan )
"I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace."
(James Conrad)
"The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists."
(William J. Clinton)
"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
( François de la Rochefoucauld)
"Prayer begins where human capacity ends. "
(Marian Anderson )
"If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. "
(Annamalai Swami)
"The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war."
(Vera Brittain)
"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 Arias)
"They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war - as though the absence of war was the same as peace."
(Dorothy Thompson)
"I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process."
(Jane Addams)
"Goodness is stronger than evil.
Love is stronger than hate.
Light is stronger than darkness.
Life is stronger than death.
Victory is ours through Him who loved us."
(Archbishop Desmond Tutu )
"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."
(The Dalai Lama)
"Peace is costly but it is worth the expense"
(African Proverb )
"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."
(Thomas Kempis )
"Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist. "
(Paula Gunn Allen)
"That's all nonviolence is - organized love. "
(Joan Baez)
"Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more. "
(Menachem Begin)
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
(Black Elk (1863-1950))
"The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world, and all men will live as brothers."
( Abdu'l-Baha)
"There is one armor that the world of men and women, as a world, has never yet put on. The churches have long bungled with its fastenings, but the world has gone unfended, and few have been those in whose hands the mystical sword of the spirit has shone with daily use. This armor, waiting to be worn, is the armor of brotherhood and sacrifice, the world of unselfishness, a conquering sword, with the power, where used, to unite the world in love. And there are none who may not put it on. "
(M.A. DeWolfe Howe)
"I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. "
(Mary McLeod Bethune )
"This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness."
( Baha'u'llah )
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. "
( John Fitzgerald Kennedy )
"Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations."
(Mikhail Gorbachev)
"Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value. "
(Mikhail Gorbachev)
"We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?"
(J. Ramsay MacDonald)
"We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life."
(A. J. Muste)
" Let us love the world to peace."
(The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman)
"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
(John Lennon)
"Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need."
(Poul Hartling)
"Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."
(Oscar Romero)
"Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace."
(Buddha)
"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life
around it."
(Brian Tracy)
"It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized."
(Aristotle)
"There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity. "
(Elise Boulding)
"Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom."
( Dalai Lama )
""Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts -- to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, “I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members.” At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go." "
(Noeleen Heyzer)
"Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart."
(Richard Lamm)
"I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace."
(Peace Pilgrim )
"We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?"
(Jacques-Yves Cousteau )
"All comforts and peace, and the Essence of the Lord, are enjoyed by acquiring spiritual wisdom in the Society of the Saints."
(Shri Guru Granth Sahib)
"Better than a thousand hollow words,
Is one word that brings peace. "
(Buddha)
"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. "
(Buddha )
"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God"
(Thomas Merton )
"Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate. "
(Joan Walsh)
"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
(Albert Camus)
"Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace."
(Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
(Robert A. Heinlein)
"Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds "
(Paul Valery )
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. "
(Benedict Spinoza)
"I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
(Helen Keller)
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God."
(Matthew 5:9 )
"Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you."
(Ajahn Chah)
"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."
(Báha'u'lláh)
"Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. "
(Maria Schell)
"Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity."
(Ralph Johnson Bunche)
"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. "
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."
(César Chávez)
"Ah, when shall all men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year? "
(Alfred Tennyson (The Golden Year) )
"Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
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(Alfred Tennyson )
"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
(Moshe Dayan)
"Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms."
(John Robbins)
"Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines."
(César Chávez)
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
(Indira Gandhi)
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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(Albert Einstein)
"The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. "
(César Chávez)
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
(John F. Kennedy)
"Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story. "
(Javier Perez de Cuellar)