Paul Valery Quotes

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

Peace will be victorious.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.