P Quotes
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“Peace is expensive, and so are human rights and civil liberties; they have a price, and we the peoples have not yet offered to pay it. Instead we are trying to furnish our globe with these precious ornaments the cheap way, holding our sovereignty cautiously in one fist while extending the other hand in a gesture of co-operation. In the long run this will prove the hard way, the violent way.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Peace is far better than violence; because fish likes water but not when the water is hot.”
“Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .”
“Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.”
“Peace is found in appreciating the infinite beauty of a magnificent sunrise and knowing that all of that beauty, love, and warmth was created just for you.”
“Peace is found when people stand for morality and reject
culture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peace
will rule the world instead of tyrants.”
Source: The End of All Evil
“Peace is found when we cease to lament what weighs upon us and instead cherish the unseen mercies that spare us from greater burdens.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Peace is freedom in tranquility.”
“Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.”
“Peace is good as prosperity.”
“Peace is handcrafted. It is made every day. Also friendship among people, mutual knowledge, esteem, is handcrafted. It's made every day. Respect the other, say that which one thinks, but with respect, but walk together.”
“Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.”
Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988
“Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good.”
“Peace is important for Israel.”
“Peace is impossible, war is improbable.”
Source: Thinking Politically: A Liberal in the Age of Ideology
“Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.”
“Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.”
Source: A Separate Peace
“Peace is inside. Outside you, it's all cluttered.”
Source: Quantraz
“Peace is inward serenity.”
“Peace is its own reward.”
“Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003”
“Peace is justice in foreign relations; equality is justice in society; passion is justice in marriage; wisdom is justice in education; restraint is justice in behavior.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.”
Source: Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
“Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.”
Source: Live Your Truth
“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
Source: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Peace is life. Love is life. No river holds a grudge against a rock in its path. No leaf refuses to blow in the breeze. No plant denies water or sunshine. We, as human beings, have the gift of self-awareness, but this gift quickly turns to self-destruction if we do not learn to use it. We must learn to turn our minds towards the peace and love that we are flowing within at any given moment. This is the key to serenity. This is The Love Mindset.”
“Peace is love in its most graceful state.”
Source: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems and Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously
“Peace is more difficult than war.”
“Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.”
“Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.”
Source: Killosophy
“Peace is more precious than a piece of land.”
“Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.”
“Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.”
“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.”
“Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.”
“Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.”
“Peace is mutual. War is unilateral. When war comes, it does so without your blessing or your vote.”
“Peace is my priority. What I believe becomes my heaven or my hell. Let me choose to go beyond my beliefs. I realize I cannot control life situations; I can only make peace within myself. Peace is my priority.”
Source: Everyday Empowerment
“Peace is needed for performance.”
“Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.”
“Peace is never a perfect achievement.”
“Peace is never boring, love is an endless gift, and happiness is how we are to be and to live.”
Source: The Azurie Trilogy Book Three Artruia
“Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.”
“Peace is never more than one thought away.”
“Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”
“Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.”
“Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.”
Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part
“Peace is not a cause,
Peace is a pause -
Pause in hate and greed,
Pause in gain and loss.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World