A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.
Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.
Where there is peace, God is.
Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.
Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself. " Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
