Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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

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

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

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

Peace is always beautiful.

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

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

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.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils.

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

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

If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

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

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

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

Peace is our passion.