“Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.”
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Peaceful Quotes — page 58 of 76
“Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves.”
“We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?”
“But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.”
“Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.”
“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”
“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.”
“Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.”
“If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.”
“I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.”
“Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.”
“There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?”
“As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?”
“Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.”
“I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.”
“There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.”
“This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.”
“There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.”
“We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.”
“The beginning of peace is a smile”