PEACE QUOTES IV
quotations about peace
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Peace. What a beautiful concept. What a rare commodity.
DARRELL HUCKABY
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"Peace is all too rare a commodity these days", Online Athens, March 12, 2016
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Jesus this song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on Earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth?
This peace on Earth
U2
"Peace on Earth"
Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?
RONALD REAGAN
address to United Nations general assembly, September 21, 1987
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
MARTIN LUTHER
On Marriage
Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
The Mission Song
Peace without Justice is a low estate,--
A coward cringing to an iron Fate!
But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,--
We'll pay the price of war to make it real.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"The Price of Peace"
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
ALBERT CAMUS
"After Hiroshima: Between Hell and Reason", Combat, August 8, 1945
I devoutly believe in the reign of peace and in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium. The fatalistic view of the war function is to me nonsense, for I know that war-making is due to definite motives and subject to prudential checks and reasonable criticisms, just like any other form of enterprise. And when whole nations are the armies, and the science of destruction vies in intellectual refinement with the science of production, I see that war becomes absurd and impossible from its own monstrosity. Extravagant ambitions will have to be replaced by reasonable claims, and nations must make common cause against them.
WILLIAM JAMES
The Moral Equivalent of War
Better to keep peace than to gain a victory.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow
And be not happy like a naked star,
Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow,
Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
"Premonition", A Hermit of Carmel
We discover peace, we unveil it. Peace is a discovery, not a conquest. It is the fruit of a revelation.
RAIMON PANIKKAR
Cultural Disarmament
You have peace ... when you make it with yourself.
MITCH ALBOM
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Peace is priceless, but not at any price.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Peace is not something we work for. When we try our whole lives to build our own sphere of peace, we will always fall short. That is because peace is nothing more than a gift of God's grace. We do not earn peace, but God gives peace anyway.
PATRICK MABILOG
"Jesus promises peace, but why can't I feel it?", Christian Today, April 6, 2016
All true conflict should aim at peace.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Condemned Playground
Lead them beside still waters because you know how badly they need still waters.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Night of the Iguana
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO
Minima Moralia
At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.
HUGH BLACK
Happiness
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
BARACK OBAMA
Nobel Lecture, December 10, 2009