We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

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

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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

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

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

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

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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 do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

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

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They’ve made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

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.

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

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

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

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.