You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.
My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.
Since government, even in its best state is an evil, the object principally to be aimed at is that we should have as little of it as the general peace of human society will permit.
See Thomas Paine for a similar sentiment.
Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.
"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
The abolition of war is like the abolition of slavery, a matter of education and civilization.
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.
Peace, Order and Good Government.
Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.
