Quotes for All
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. Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. Dorothy Thompson
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Desmond Tutu
Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It’s very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family. Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Dalai Lama
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. Dalai Lama
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. Dag Hammarskjold
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. Black Elk