Quotes about peace

To make peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh

if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Right is more precious than peace.

Woodrow Wilson

We’re only trying to get us some peace.

John Lennon

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

Anais Nin

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions.

Frank Sinatra

Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

Eckhart Tolle

Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.

John F. Kennedy