The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love they neighbor as thyself."--Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world.--Frederick Ward Kates

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.--Max Lucade

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.--Marianne Williamson

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.--Mahatma Gandhi

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?"--Gerald Jampolsky

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.--Marianne Williamson

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.--Petrarch

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.--Eleanor Roosevelt

Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.--Gerald Jampolsky

God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.--Marianne Williamson

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.--Thomas á Kempis

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.--Albert Einstein

The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.--Max Born

I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.--Woodrow Wilson 

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.--Joan Baez

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.--Edith Armstrong

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.--Albert Einstein

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.--Mohandas Gandhi

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.--Anne Frank

I went to Vietnam to wage war,
in order that there would be peace,
but there was no peace,
only much death and sorrow.
And I only hope that from the knowledge
of those who have returned,
those who will return,
and those who will not return,
that there will never be a war in our own country.--Sp4 Mayo, Chu Lai, South Viet Nam, Dec 1970

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.--Thich Nhat Hanh

If there is no peace, there must be strength; if there is to be security, there must be stability; if there is to be lasting joy, there must be no leaning upon things which at any moment may be snatched away for ever.--James Allen (Byways of Blessedness)

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.--Mohandas Gandhi

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.--Mother Teresa

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.--Andre Gide

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.--Swami Brahmanada

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.--William Tecumseh Sherman

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.--George Mikes

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth;
Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust;
Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace;
Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.--Satish Kumar ("Prayer for Peace")

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile--smile five times a day to someone you don't really want to smile at all--do it for peace. So let us radiate the peace of God and so light his light.--Mother Teresa

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.--Norman Vincent Peale

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.--Ajahn Chah (Reflections)

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.--John F. Kennedy

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.--Johan Christoph Schiller

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.--Henri Nouwen

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.--St. Francis de Sales

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.--Thomas Alva Edison

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet… But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to ring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.--Albert Einstein

Nothing is more important than to war on war.--Pope Leo XIII

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.--David Borenstein

Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.--Hans Margolius

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.--Gerald Jampolsky

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.--Thomas Jefferson

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.--Thomas Merton

Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.--Robert Fulghum

Peace, like every other rare and precious thing, doesn't come to you. You have to go and get it.--Faith Forsyte

Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.--Norman Vincent Peale

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.--Elbert Hubbard

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which … is within the souls of men.--Black Elk

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes, it will be from failure of human wisdom.--Bonar Law

There is no way to peace, peace is the way.--A. J. Muste

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.--L. Thomas Holdcroft

There never was a good war or a bad peace.--Benjamin Franklin

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.--Abraham Lincoln

They will hammer their swords into plowblades
and their spears into pruning shears.
Nations will never fight against each other,
and they will never train for war again.--Isaiah 2:4b (God's Word Version)

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.--Theodore Roosevelt

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.--Adolf Hitler

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.--Buddha

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.--John F. Kennedy

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.--Dwight David Eisenhower

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.--H. G. Wells (The Salvaging of Civilization)

To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth."--Anthony de Mello

To be at one with God is to be at peace ... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.--Ralph W. Trine

Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.--Dale Turner (Seattle Times, 1/11/03)

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.--Etty Hillesum

Unlike children in other countries, the Eskimos played no game of war. They played with imaginary rifles and harpoons, but these were never directed against people but against the formidable beasts that haunted the vast wastes of their land.--Marie Herbert

War ends nothing.--African proverb

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.--H. G. Wells (Mr. Britling Sees It Through)

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.--Thomas Jefferson

War is not about what's right. It's about what's left.--Unknown

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.--Leo Tolstoy

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change--Frederick Moore Vinson

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.--Marianne Williamson

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.--Henri F. Amiel

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?--George Wallace