Community Peace Quotes

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.

Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community

To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.

Educate and inform the mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

The experience of ages demonstrates, that regularity of manners is essential to the tranquility and prosperity of societies.

That's what it's about. Bringing unity, so our kids can grow up safe.

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.

Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

I still believe that a fight between two brothers should not destroy peace and harmony and bring trouble to the common man.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

When we respect ourselves, our lives change because the conflict in our mind ends. Then the relationship with our beloved also changes, and there will be peace in our family, in our friendships, in our community, and so on. Just imagine what kind of planet this would be if everybody respected themselves and everybody else?

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

They threaten the peace of every community in which they exist …. They’re loyalty is not to the United States.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

You need women to participate in the peace process. They are the guardians of the village.