The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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

On all the peaks lies peace.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

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

I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.

No violent extreme endures.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.