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Quotes including the word “peace”.

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Aeshop

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Akhmatova

t was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Pinto Andrade

My goal is to reach the end satisfied and at peace with my loved ones and my conscience.

Isaac Asimov

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Amílcar Cabral

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.

Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Rene Crevel

Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

Ihab Darwish

For me music is powerful. It brings peace in people’s hearts & minds as it overcome barriers and form strong bonds.

Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Anne Frank

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquillity will return eventually.

Gandhi

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Khalil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Hobbes

The first and fundamental law of Nature is to seek peace and follow it.

Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Immanuel Kant

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”

John Lennon

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Nelson Mandela

The first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”

Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace

Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

John Milton

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

Jim Morrison

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Guru Nanak

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

Pablo Neruda

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Petrarca

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Pythagoras

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Pythagoras

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings will never know health or peace. He, who sows the fruit of murder and pain can not reap joy and love.

Robespierre

lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.

Rolland

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”

Spinoza

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

Spinoza

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Leon Trotsky

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Washington

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Virginia Woolf

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.