Friday, June 28, 2013

Quotes on Peace

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.


Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.


Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.


Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.


Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.


Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.


Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.


People always make war when they say they love peace.


People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.


Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.


The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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