Quotes about peace
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“A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through, a great peace greets you there”
“Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.”
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
1960s, How Long, Not Long (1965)
Context: I must admit to you that there are still jail cells waiting for us, and dark and difficult moments. But if we will go on with the faith that nonviolence and its power can transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows, we will be able to change all of these conditions. And so I plead with you this afternoon as we go ahead: remain committed to nonviolence. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding. We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.
“Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.”
“The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
Source: Queens' Play
Source: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Source: The Raven Warrior
“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”
Source: Jayber Crow
Source: I Know This Much Is True
Source: The Master and Margarita
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.”
1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
Source: Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
On Death and Dying (1969)
The Sleepers, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Leaves of Grass
Source: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“Deep experience is never peaceful.”
de Mauves http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/mauve10.txtMadame, Galaxy Magazine (February/March 1874), ch. V, reprinted in A Passionate Pilgrim (1875) and later in The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales (1879) and the New York Edition of James' works, vol. 13 (1908).
“The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.”
“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.”
Source: The Art of Power
“Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.”
Source: A Countess Below Stairs
Source: Frankenstein
“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
Source: Anna Karenina
“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Begging your pardon, sir…. One population can't make peace with another by force.”
Source: Son of a Witch
The Divine Image, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Source: English, August: An Indian Story
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance
Source: Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
Variant: What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
As quoted in The Canine Hiker's Bible (2000) by Doug Gelbert, p. 8
“there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.”
Source: Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear
“Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.”
Source: The Awakening
“Peace is our gift to each other.”
Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book
Source: Little Women
“Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet.”
“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.”
Variant: You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Source: The Hours
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations… entangling alliances with none”
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Context: Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people -- a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles
Context: About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people -- a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead