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“Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee, That she in peace may wake and pity me.”
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) said by 1620 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.”
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment" in The Dial, No. 86 (April 1929)
“People who are offering revenge, they are just an enemy. But when you offer peace and love, that infuriates people. And you get killed for that. That's why Christ is killed, that's why King is shot, that's why Gandhi is killed. The idea of a man believing in the universal brotherhood is totally unendurable to someone who would prefer to have that man talk about revenge. (1990)”
Derek Walcott (1930–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick — and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.”
Isaac Bonewits (1949–2010) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Understanding the Religious Reich (1990; 2005).
“Oh! then, let us gird up our minds in courage, and compose them in peace. Let us cast aside fear and suspicion, suspend our jealousies and disputes, acknowledge the rights of others and assert our own. And oh! let us understand that the first and noblest of these rights is, the cultivation of our reason.”
Frances Wright (1795–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too sweet To hold the added sweetness of a song. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How should they know that Sappho lived and died Faithful to love, not faithful to the lover, Never transfused and lost in what she loved, Never so wholly loving nor at peace.”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am alone, as though I stood On the highest peak of the tired gray world, About me only swirling snow, Above me, endless space unfurled; With earth hidden and heaven hidden, And only my own spirit's pride To keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died.”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me real peace is lying on a river bank in summer with a sprig of grass in my mouth. I have friends who jet off to a luxury hotel. I think, 'How can you enjoy such ghastly luxury?'”
Griff Rhys Jones (born 1953) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Odell, "This much I know: Griff Rhys Jones", The Guardian, November 5, 2006.
“This country shall remain forever the home of the descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race.”
John Curtin (1885–1945) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Digest of Decisions and Announcements and Important Speeches by the Prime Minister. No. 11 (December 1941)
“What is, however, expected of intellect is that it should show a most proper way to achieve its end, be it the hunting of a beast, inventing of an instrument, laying down the foundations of a new system of economy, setting up a new form or government, kindling a war, or making peace. All these activities of man depend upon his intellectual ability. Emotions creeping in will only spoil them.”
Muhammad Qutb (1919–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light — Jesus for a night and have It my way — if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon — when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.”
Macy Gray (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“East and west and north, wherever the battle grew, As men to a feast we fared, the work of the Will to do.Bent upon vast beginnings, bidding anarchy cease — (Had we hacked it to the Pit, we had left it a place of peace!) —Marching, building, sailing, pillar of cloud or fire, Sons of the Will, we fought the fight of the Will, our sire.”
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Into a land Storm-wrought, a place of quakes, all thunder-scarred, Helpless, degraded, desolate, Peace, the White Angel, comes. Her eyes are as a mother's. Her good hands Are comforting, and helping; and her voice Falls on the heart, as, after Winter, Spring Falls on the World, and there is no more pain.”
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will be one of the extinguished species. The good news is that life on the planet will recover and peace will return to the environment.”
Michael Boulter (1942–2025) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man (2002).
“I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.”
David Rockefeller (1915–2017) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Benjamin Fulford (13 November 2007)
“Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into fierce and surly brutes he felt that he much preferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leadership amongst a horde of wild beasts.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in action. … I believe in doing rather than talking. All my life I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice. This is why I traveled all over the world to adopt 11 youngsters.”
Josephine Baker (1906–1975) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jo Baker helps civil rights groups : Renowned star 'deeply concerned', Jet Vol. 25, No. 19 (27 February 1964), p. 60
“The storm is here. From the clash of these two winds the storm will be born, its time has arrived. Now the wind from above rules, but the wind from below is coming…. The prophecy is here. When the storm calms, when rain and fire again leave the country in peace, the world will no longer be the world but something better.”
Subcomandante Marcos (born 1957) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds" (August 1992)
“When even lovers find their peace at last, And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) Prologue
“When the great markets by the sea shut fast All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: When even lovers find their peace at last, And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913)
“It is still difficult to realise that the moment has actually come at last when 1 shall have no peace of mind any more until the War is over.”
Vera Brittain (1893–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A million million worlds that move in peace; A million mighty laws that never cease; And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds, Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds. They sleep beneath the sod And trust in God.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is the righteous Saviour, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest of British interests is peace.”
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the Circus, Anlaby Road, Hull (8 March 1899), quoted in The Times (9 March 1899), p. 6
“33. The peace of the chitta (or mind stuff) can be brought about through the practice of sympathy, tenderness, steadiness of purpose, and dispassion in regard to pleasure or pain, or towards all forms of good or evil.”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“34. The peace of the chitta is also brought about by the regulation of the prana or life breath.”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“36. By meditation upon Light and upon Radiance, knowledge of the Spirit can be reached and thus peace can be achieved.”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1790 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Annual Address, to both Houses of Congress (8 January 1790).
“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”
George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1793 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fifth annual Message (3 December 1793)
“The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.”
George Washington (1732–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have said these things to you so that by means of me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage! I have conquered the world.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. … Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus (upon whom be peace!) saw the world revealed in the form of an ugly old hag. He asked her how many husbands she had possessed; she replied that they were countless. He asked whether they had died or been divorced; she said that she had slain them all. "I marvel," he said, "at the fools who see what you have done to others, and still desire you.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Alchemy of Happiness [Kimiya-I-Sa'adat] by Imam Al Ghazali, page 46, Hazell, Watson and Viney LD,. London and Aylesbury (1910), Translated from Hindustani by Claud Field.
“A civil war occurring in a country, where foreigners reside and carry on trade under treaty stipulations is necessarily fruitful of complaints of the violation of neutral rights. All such collisions tend to excite misapprehensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamations between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With malice toward none, with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us, Showing his shield A shelter for peace.”
Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The musicians had played on the deck as the ship went down. They had forfeited their lives for the sake of others. They had played the tunes of hymns to induce a spirit of peace and calm. They were heroic.”
Steve Turner (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was one of the greatest thrills of my life to stand there, waist high in crusty snow, on a peak never before trod by human kind, surrounded by the great ghostly shadows of other individual peaks in this range. I practised my yodel which echoed and re-echoed with no human to hear. It was glorious, a sense of peace and freedom such as I never known before.”
Judy LaMarsh (1924–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace is meaningless without freedom.”
N. K. Jemisin (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little, and others much.”
Robert Leighton (bishop) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Study to follow His will in all, to have no will but His. This is thy duty and thy wisdom. Nothing is gained by spurning and struggling, but to hurt and vex thyself; but by complying all is gained,—sweet peace.”
Robert Leighton (bishop) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m looking forward to the peace of mind to just write... Songwriting is something that I just fell into. I never expected to love it. But I’ve always had to kind of treat it like a hobby. Now it’s going to feel so good to know that I can just sit down and write.”
Scott Clifton (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order.”
Günter Brus (1938–2024) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: P. 14 (Cit.after LockerWiener Aktionismus.Der zertrümmerte Spiegel.Wien1960-1971,op.cit., p. 299.)
“Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'I have no wish to argue, Father. Yet it must be said that the monks exist here in peace and security only because of the swords of the defenders. I do not belittle your views — I wish all men shared them. But they do not. ... if all men and women lived as you and I, there would be no children, and no humanity. What then would be the Will of the Source?'”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth as clear and blue as the sky we walk under. Love as bright and loud as the lightning and thunder. Peace as pure and white as the moon, so full of wonder. So many different colours of Islam!”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is not a box, there’s no lid, no doors, no cardboard flaps or locks, and everything in nature from the clouds to the rocks is a piece of the puzzle of the purpose of mankind, it's a piece of the peace that we’ll find.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source