Baltasar Gracian Quotes

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

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

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

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.