Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

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.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

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.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

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

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Peace begins with a smile.

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.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Going home helps the content.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

Disagreement is something normal.