I Am For Peace Quotes

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.

I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.

There never was a war that was not inward.

The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

Democracy is good for world peace.

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.