Quotes about peace

A collection of quotes on the topic of peace.

„So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.“

— Snoop Dogg American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1971

„Shout out to everyone makin' my beats, you helpin' me preach This music's the only thing keepin' the peace when I'm fallin' to pieces“

— Lil Peep American rapper 1996 - 2017
Song Star Shopping, Album: LiL PEEP; PART ONE

Music

„Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie.“

— Adolfo Bioy Casares Argentine novelist 1914 - 1999
Descanso de caminantes, 2001.

Life, Truth, Lie

„This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.“

— Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957
Address to faculty, students and guests at Harvard University's Sanders Theater (August 2004) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 18, 2004

Beauty, Heart

„Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence…“

— Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

Silence

„There'll be no white flags, and no peace talk.“

— 50 Cent American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer 1975
Heat

„The goal of the education reform is to realize the potential of Thai people to develop themselves for a better quality of life and to develop the national into peaceful co-existence in the global community.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrdaen/1/1/1_KJ00006742072/_pdf

Life, People, Education, Communication

„If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere – let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.“

— Paul Robeson American singer and actor 1898 - 1976
Daily Worker (15 November 1945)

People, Hope

„In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.“

— Herodotus ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian -484 - -425 BC
Variant translation: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. Book 1, Ch. 87.

War

„Now, O son of God, set in the valley of true humility, walk in peace without pride of spirit, which, like a precipitous mountain, offers a difficult, or near-impossible, ascent or descent to those who attempt to scale it, and on its summit no building can be built. For a person who tries to climb higher than he can achieve possesses the name of sanctity without substance, because, in name alone without a structure of good works, he glories in a kind of vain joy of the mind.“

— Hildegard of Bingen Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church 1098 - 1179
Letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176

God, Mountain, Joy, Personality

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„[F]rom the earliest periods of time [man] alone has divided the empire of the world between him and Nature…. [H]e rather enjoys than possesses, and it is by constant and perpetual activity and vigilance that he preserves his advantage, for if those are neglected every thing languishes, changes, and returns to the absolute dominion of Nature. She resumes her power, destroys the operations of man; envelopes with moss and dust his most pompous monuments, and in the progress of time entirely effaces them, leaving man to regret having lost by his negligence what his ancestors had acquired by their industry. Those periods in which man loses his empire, those ages in which every thing valuable perishes, commence with war and are completed by famine and depopulation. Although the strength of man depends solely upon the union of numbers, and his happiness is derived from peace, he is, nevertheless, so regardless of his own comforts as to take up arms and to fight, which are never-failing sources of ruin and misery. Incited by insatiable avarice, or blind ambition, which is still more insatiable, he becomes callous to the feelings of humanity; regardless of his own welfare, his whole thoughts turn upon the destruction of his own species, which he soon accomplishes. The days of blood and carnage over, and the intoxicating fumes of glory dispelled, he beholds, with a melancholy eye, the earth desolated, the arts buried, nations dispersed, an enfeebled people, the ruins of his own happiness, and the loss of his real power.“

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon French natural historian 1707 - 1788
Buffon's Natural History (1797) Vol. 10, pp. 340-341 https://books.google.com/books?id=respAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA340, an English translation of Histoire Naturelle (1749-1804).

War, People, Age, World

„What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife… Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment…“

— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
Context: While I have not lost faith in its potentialities, my views have changed since. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only though annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a calamity. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.

World, Communication, Understanding, Nature

„This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.“

— Malala Yousafzai Pakistani children's education activist 1997
Context: Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

Love, Soul

„Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable“

— Gary L. Francione American legal scholar 1954

„If you desire to discover peace and consolation for your soul and to serve God truly, do not find your satisfaction in what you have left behind, because in that which now concerns you you may be as impeded as you were before, or even more. But leave as well all these other things and attend to one thing alone that brings all these with it (namely, holy solitude, together with prayer and spiritual and divine reading), and persevere there in forgetfulness of all things.“

— John of the Cross Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542 - 1591

God, Soul, Solitude, Reading

„When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the peace.“

— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

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