P Quotes
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“Peace was like any high. It couldn’t last. It was an illusion, something that could be interrupted in a moment and lost forever. Only two things kept you safe: money and power.”
Source: Ninth House
“Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.”
Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim
“Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.”
Source: Between the Acts
“Peace was what people were groping for, and when Americans grope for something they turn naturally to display advertising and grope all over the place.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are.”
Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
“Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.”
Source: The Panther and the Lash
“Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.”
Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti
“Peace will be elusive if you see it as a distant destination. This very moment is the only address 'peace' has.”
“Peace will be ours when love supersedes the need to be right.”
Source: Hope for a New Era: Turning the Tide, Love and Leadership Through Turbulent Times
“Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.”
“Peace will be victorious.”
“Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.”
“Peace will claw its way out, anyhow.
War cannot bury it forever.”
“Peace will come in our time, when we make time for peace.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Peace will come on its own once we grow the brains and backbone to question our most revered yet divisive tradition.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.”
Source: The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
“Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.”
“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.”
“Peace will come to the world when the people have enough noodles to eat.”
“Peace will come when people have food.”
“Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.”
“Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.”
“Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.”
“Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.”
“Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.”
Source: Collected Works
“Peace will possess thy soul, if thy will pray.”
“Peace will require the willingness to forsake the peace through force of arms in order to secure the peace for the future of mankind.”
“Peace wins over wealth.”
“Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.”
“Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.”
“Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesn't mean just being 'good' - it means being 'better' than others. Being better that others means having to see them as enemies - and making war on them. The fundamentalist views not being allowed to make war on their enemies as oppression of their faith, or defeat.”
Source: Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
“Peace with peaceful people and war with oppressors and mischievous people.”
“Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.”
Source: Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue
“Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.”
“Peace within us starts when we learn to forgive and let go”
“Peace within us translates to our exterior world. Our outer and inner state of peace is directly related to each other. It's simply impossible to have lasting peace around us unless we have peace within us.”
“Peace Within. Peace Without. Mi Zai”
“Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.”
“Peace without justice is an impossibility.”
Source: The words of Desmond Tutu
“Peace without justice is but the silence of fear, never the harmony of unity.”
“Peace without justice is tyranny”
Source: Forty Years on Main Street
“Peace without truth is a false peace.”
“Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.”
“Peace won't come from Washington, Moscow, Brussels or Geneva. It can only come from the dust and dirt of the streets that we the people walk on every single day of our ordinary yet alive existence.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)”
Source: Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains
“Peace, you never seemed so tedious
As now - no, never quite like this.”
Source: Come Close
“Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.”