I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
We need a world-wide Department of Peace.
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
Look at you in war. . . There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.
The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.
Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.
If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.
If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. . . some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.