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“Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind-made “little me” is all you know and runs your life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting inner peace cannot come into your life except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness. (Ch 2)”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance. (Ch 6)”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace. (Ch 8)”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been on our planet.”
Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948–2001) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Louis Theroux on Weird Weekends (2 June 1999)
“I do request you to thank Mr. W___ for me, and tell him he has the prayers- not of a raving mad whig, nor fawning deceitful tory- but of a coal-black, jolly African, who wishes health and peace to every religion and country throughout the ample range of God's creation!”
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) first seen 1780 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (from vol 2, letter 62: 17 Jan 1780, to Mr S___ ).
“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnet XXII from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)
“Peace the offspring is of Power.”
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Thousand Years" (September 20, 1862), stanza 12; in The Poems (1866), p. 411.
“Come then, my bird! For the peace thou ever bearest, Still Heaven's messenger of comfort to me— Come—this fond bosom, O faithfullest and fairest, Bleeds with its death-wound, its wound of love for thee!”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At end of Love, at end of Life, At end of Hope, at end of Strife, At end of all we cling to so— The sun is setting—must we go?At dawn of Love, at dawn of Life, At dawn of Peace that follows Strife, At dawn of all we long for so— The sun is rising—let us go.”
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My Führer, if it's not possible for you to give me a date for the wonder weapons, we Germans must approach the Anglo-Americans and seek peace.”
Karl Wolff (1900–1984) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Adolf Hitler. Quoted in "The Last 100 Days" - Page 173 - by John Toland - 1966
“All of us, I am certain, are united by more important things than those which superficially divide us. We are united, for instance, by a common detestation of colonialism in whatever form it appears. We are united by a common detestation of racialism. And we are united by a common determination to preserve and stabilise peace in the world. . . .”
Sukarno (1901–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not so very long ago we argued that peace was necessary for us because an outbreak of fighting in our part of the world would imperil our precious independence, so recently won at such great cost.”
Sukarno (1901–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, let this Asian-African Conference be a great success! Make the "Live and let live" principle and the "Unity in diversity" motto the unifying force which brings us all together-to seek in friendly, uninhibited discussion, ways and means by which each of us can live his own life, and let others live their own lives, in their own way, in harmony, and in peace.”
Sukarno (1901–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.”
Black Kettle (1803–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He did not even try, for fear of succeeding. What could he say? “Disarm. Seek peace. Hammer your swords into ploughshares.” And suppose they did? The enemy would strike again—and succeed, against an unprepared nation.”
Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They are a crowd of little Englanders, anti-Navy and Army fellows, who agitate for universal peace based on the love of God. It is a very devout policy, but unfortunately God is on the side of the big warships.”
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on the British Radicals (1911), quoted in A. J. P. Taylor, Beaverbrook (1972), p. 65
“A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.”
William Cobbett (1763–1835) said by 1835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know that you are just a stone and that you can neither do any harm nor give benefit. Had I not seen Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allâh be upon him) kissing you, I would not have kissed you.”
Umar (586–644) said by 644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During the years of the so-called peace, politics—total politics—have only a meaning in as much as they prepare for total war.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Der Totalkrieg (Berlin, 1933), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 357
“I reject Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deutsche Gottglaube, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 9
“If the Jews are denied the right to live in freedom and peace, soon we will all be denied this right. If the light of Israel is extinguished, we will all face darkness. If Israel falls, the West falls.”
Geert Wilders (born 1963) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech delivered in Tel Aviv in December of 2010, quoted in The Blaze: "‘Marked for Death’: Beck Interviews Anti-Islamist Dutch MP Geert Wilders" (2 May 2012)
“What I'm trying to do when I visit your beautiful country, Australia, is warn Australians that even though it might not be the case today, learn from the mistakes that we made in Europe: be vigilant and look at Islam for what it really is. Islam is not a religion of peace.”
Geert Wilders (born 1963) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anti-Islam campaigner coming to Australia. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast: 13/02/2013. Reporter: Tony Jones.
“Many people wanna make money, make love, make friends, make peace with death — But most mainly want to win the game they came to win they want to come out ahead. But you, you're a rock, with a heart like a socket I can plug into at will. And will you guess when I come around next. I hope your open sign is blinking still.”
St. Vincent (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause, Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!”
Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hail, Columbia! (1798).
“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many times have you become very anxious when forced to wait? There are a million things to see. There are a million beautiful sounds to hear. Open your eyes, see--as if for the first time. Find peace in moments of waiting, and you will witness that all life can be perfectly beautiful.”
Scott Shaw (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. Another is lack of proportion, the obsession with one desire or one principle to the minimising or exclusion of others; exaggeration, in fact.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cranks", Woman's Suffrage: The Common Cause of Humanity, vol. 10, p. 132, June 28, 1918.
“All of this self-serving is driving America and its vassals to war with Russia, which might also mean with China. The war would be nuclear and be the end of the West, an act of self-genocide. The US national security establishment is so crazed that Trump’s efforts to get off the war track and onto a peace track are characterized as treason and a threat to US national security.”
Paul Craig Roberts (born 1939) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Self-Genocide of the West, Foreign Policy Journal (26 December 2018)
“The leading force in the struggle for peace and for strengthening cooperation among the peoples is the Soviet Union.”
Leonid Govorov (1897–1955) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "USSR Information Bulletin" - 1942 - Page 358
“All solutions that ignore the maintenance of Jewish supremacy in Israel will fail. Unless the elimination of Jewish supremacy becomes the major goal of a real 'peace process', all other solutions will simply perpetuate the conflict.”
Joseph Massad (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O let Thy mercy descend upon the whole church; preserve her in truth and peace, in unity and safety, in all storms, and against all temptations and enemies; that she, offering to Thy glory the never-ceasing sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, may advance the honour of her Lord, and be filled with His Spirit, and partake of His glory. Amen.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, Prayers and Devotions
“And what can be greater than that from the goodness and love of God we receive Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, and adoption, and the inheritance of sons, and to be coheirs with Jesus, and to have pardon of our sins, and a Divine nature, and restraining grace and the grace of sanctification, and rest and peace within us, and a certain expectation of glory?”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), chapter 4, section 6.
“The sunlight of a sunlit land, A land of fruit, of flowers, and A land of love and calm delight; A land where night is not like night, And noon is but a name for rest, And love for love is reckoned best. Where conversations of the eyes Are all enough; where beauty thrills The heart like hues of harvest-home; Where rage lies down, where passion dies, Where peace hath her abiding place. . . .”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace before everything, God before anything / Love before anything, real before everything / Home before anyplace, truth before anything / Style and stay radiate, love power slay the hate”
Yasiin Bey (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Putin is a rational actor inside a bunker, so deep, so deprived of light and information, that he is pulling levers without understanding how the modern world is responding, without understanding that some of his levers at least are no longer working, without understanding that invading countries at peace is what the Nazis did.”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.”
John L. Lewis (1880–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humanity will be forever at war as long as there is no common enemy. World peace demands a new Hitler. (16 February 2010)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love of God is firstly the attachment of the intelligence to the Truth, then the attachment of the will to the Good, and finally the attachment of the soul to the Peace that is given by the Truth and the Good.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though the way of religion has thorns in it with respect to persecution, yet it is full of roses with respect to that inward peace and contentment that the soul finds in it.”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O that we would therefore, while we are on this side of the grave, make our peace with God! Tomorrow may be our dying day; let this be our repenting day.”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heels of small war—until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime.”
Robert Lowell (1917–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I carry in my right hand war, and peace in my left... Here is a bloody belt and a white one. Take which you please.”
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) first seen 1778 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clark, Speech to the Indian Chiefs at Cahokia (1778)
“The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.”
Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The oppressor must be harassed until his doom. He must have no peace by day or by night. The slaves have always outnumbered the slavemasters. The power of the oppressor rests upon the submission of the people.”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
“The blood, sweat, tears, and suffering of Black people are the foundations of the wealth and power of the United States of America. We were forced to build America, and if forced to, we will tear it down. The immediate result of this destruction will be suffering and bloodshed. But the end result will be the perpetual peace for all mankind.”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
“I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.”
Patch Adams (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They call it "friendship" and "peace," and further "harmony" and "unanimity": for these are all cohesive and unificatory of opposites and dissimilars. Hence they also call it "marriage." And there are also three ages in life.”
Iamblichus (245–325) said by 325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Days I enjoy", quoted in Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1993) by Suzanne Raitt, p. 89