Quotes of Tranquillity - somelinesforyou

“ All we are saying is give peace a chance… ”

- John Lennon

“ I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war. ”

- John Milton

“ If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. ”

- John Bright

“ Seek peace, and pursue it. ”

- Bible

“ Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ”

- Harold Ross

“ If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament — disarmament follows peace. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. ”

- William Cowper

“ Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ 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

“ Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. ”

- Georges Clemenceau

“ We have believed — and we do believe now — that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. ”

- Indira Gandhi

“ And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. ”

- Bible

“ I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ”

- Helen Keller

“ The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. — The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! - King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ They make a wilderness and call it peace. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy? ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. ”

- Unknown

“ Peace is liberty in tranquillity. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. ”

- Carl von Clausewitz

“ Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy. ”

- Unknown

“ Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun. ”

- Unknown

“ Peace has no borders. ”

- Yitzhak Rabin
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