“There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?”
Peaceful feeling
Peaceful Quotes — page 13 of 76
“This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.”
“Forests are the lungs of our land.”
“We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.”
“There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.”
“We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.”
“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.”
“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”
“Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.”
“The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.”
“Peace, unity and harmony!”
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
“The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.”
“The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.”
“The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."”
“When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.”
“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
“Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.”
“We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God”