I Am For Peace Quotes

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

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.

I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

I want the peace in knowing that is wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God.

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.

It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

Can I share with you my worldview? All of humankind has one thing in common: the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

Tears are great peace-makers.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

Remember what peace there may be in silence.

His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.