Peace Quotes

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

Malcolm X

"Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war, his corruption, his disgrace."

James Thomson

"Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men."

Herbert Hoover

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

Maria Montessori

"Peace is the first thing the angels sang."

John Keble

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace."

Ajahn Chah

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

Seneca

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Isaac Asimov

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution."

Thomas Edison

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."

Albert Schweitzer

"Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

Ambrose Bierce

"In times of peace the warlike man attacks himself."

"There never was a war that was not inward."

Marianne Moore

"Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Nobody's free until everybody's free."

Fannie Lou Hamer

"Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone."

Hazel Henderson

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."

Lewis B. Smedes

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Paul Boese

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace."

Thomas à Kempis

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

George Santayana

"War is hell."

William Tecumseh Sherman

"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."

Georges Clemenceau

"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."