Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

People like to talk about war.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

War is a contagion.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

War settles nothing.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.