Happiness and Inspirational Quotes14 Jul 2009 06:29 pm

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Some Quotations on Peace, because on can only be truly happy or truly inspired to do something if there is peace..

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is always beautiful.
~ Walt Whitman

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Theresa

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
~Anonymous

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
~Isaac Asimov

War would end if the dead could return.
~Stanley Baldwin

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
~Leonard Bernstein

It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
~Edmund Burke

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
~Denis Diderot

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
~George Bernard Shaw

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
~Goethe

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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.
~Dorothy Thompson

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
~Thomas a Kempis

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
~Thomas Merton

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~Mother Jones

One Response to “Inspirational Quotes on Peace”

  1. on 23 Jul 2009 at 6:45 am Stephanie Treasure

    I love these quotes! Here is another favorite of mine. Hope you will like it too:

    The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
    Marcel Pagnol

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