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“If he could read a line, just understand one sign. Close his mouth and hear the peace of hope and fear, if he could read a line. If he could keep in time.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’ve been listening into and watching your planet’s radio and television transmissions ever since Reginald Fessenden proclaimed, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good willies’, back in 1906. Since then, our research at the University of Weagu Tafrid has focused primarily on the concept of human “celebrity”.”
Yakoub Islam first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Intergalactic Fame (29 July 2011)
“Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the rain came down, I was older than the earth. I could die right now, and plan another birth Anytime I choose. I am in peace, in love, in harmony, when the rain comes”
Happy Rhodes (born 1965) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When The Rain Came Down" (bonus track on 1992 CD) - Live performance at The Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA (9 May 1996) - Visually enhanced fan video of same performance
“When the rain came down, I was standing in the green My soul was touched by every tree that my eyes could see I am in peace, in love, in harmony when the rain comes downWhen the rain came down — melded with my tears When the rain came down — flow away the fears When the rain came down — bigger than the sea When the rain came down — then came me.”
Happy Rhodes (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.”
Kelsang Gyatso (1931–2022) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom (2011)
“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.”
Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Notebook entry, quoted in Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life (2003) by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88.
“In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you’ve had your head in a bucket.”
Ellen Kushner (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.”
Randal Marlin (1938–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, when the Gospel is under attack from all directions, I too must ask the question: What profit do you get from your unbelief? I never get the impression that people have peace of mind or are happier for all their unbelief. No, my friends.”
Wilhelm Busch (pastor) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What's the use of walking with God? p. 216 (19 June 1966)
“Look around the world. Wherever you damage the environment, you have conflict. We have had enough conflict in [South Africa] – now is the time for peace.”
Lewis Pugh (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote by Nigel Farage on an article in the Zimbabwe Independent, regarding the EU winning the Nobel Peace Prize, 19 October 2012. Nobel Peace Prize really deserves a new name.
“If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.”
Kenneth Waltz (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.”
Kenneth Waltz (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.”
Kenneth Waltz (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?”
Kenneth Waltz (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.”
Kenneth Waltz (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel my most beautiful when I am truly myself. Meaning, when I accept exactly where I am in time and space, and I’m not judging myself in any way, and I feel that I have the peace that comes with loving yourself and all of your flaws, I see so much now how beauty really does, as cliché as it sounds, emanate from within.”
Gwyneth Paltrow (born 1972) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to People magazine named Paltrow the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2013 (April 24, 2013)
“If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.”
Nastassja Kinski (born 1961) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.
“When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among people, To make music in the heart.”
Howard Thurman (1899–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Work of Christmas" in The Mood of Christmas & Other Celebrations (1985)
“The gun is a consequence of our minds. If we were in love with peace, and had no will to destroy each other, there would be no gun.”
Justina Robson (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A rising economic power that violates human rights is a threat to peace.”
Fang Lizhi (1936–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the Greek people decide that they want a republic, they are entitled to have that and should be left in peace to enjoy it.”
Constantine II of Greece (1940–2023) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Throneless abroad: The men who would be king" TIME magazine (Jun. 3, 2002/Vol. 159 No. 22)
“Nature's process of creation, as it exists in its timelessness,in its oneness and peace,has all the answers to man's needs of growth and progress and development. If the human endeavor first absorbs and then adopts these answers in its developmental process, the growth from cities to mega cities and path to progress would not create silent self digging graves of human extinction.”
Manav Gupta (born 1967) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rainforests and the Timeless Metaphors of Dreams by Manav Gupta (August 1997)
“Yes, upon seeing some people during my visits to the Himalayas. They seem to have an inner peace and tranquility that we do not.”
Rajinikanth (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In "When KB Interviewed Superstar! (25 October 2010).
“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”
“It was in the Passage that I discovered tribal life and learned to hate it. How happy had been the intimacy of our blind alley, now lost for good! As long as I had lived alone, I had lived in peace.”
Albert Memmi (1920–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous adventures, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge.”
Albert Memmi (1920–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most serious blow suffered by the colonized is being removed from history and from the community. Colonization usurps any free role in either war or peace, every decision contributing to his destiny and that of the world, and all cultural and social responsibility.”
Albert Memmi (1920–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To sense the peace of extinguished passion, happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge.”
Dejan Stojanovic (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.”
Dejan Stojanovic (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being part of a team that belongs to everyone makes me feel good and at peace with myself. A lot of the time, it's better than sex: it lasts longer and if it all falls flat, it can't just be your fault.”
Andrea Pirlo (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And there it is, the international symbol of peace – the pigeon!”
Jimmy Magee (1935–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With all the uncertainty of the success of the next campaign, and with the absolute certainty that we are now making our last effort...I should be willing to conclude a peace, which compared with our situation a year ago would be most advantageous, though it may be one to which, with our resources entire, I should not have been willing to submit.”
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845) first seen 1764 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Fitzwilliam (9 April 1813), quoted in E. A. Smith, Lord Grey. 1764-1845 (1990; 1996), pp. 174-175
“The ideals and aspirations of the American people with regard to world peace can never be fully realized until the United States is a full-fledged member of the League.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we trust organized and aggressive goodwill we will transform the present war-producing system into a peace system which removes the causes of war and maintains the agencies of pacific settlement of international dispute.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace.”
Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was something about the way the old man said the word "comfortable." It had a different meaning--not the comfort of big houses or rich food or even clean streets, but the comfort of belonging with the land, and the peace of being with these hills. (p108)”
Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Utopism is the forerunner of all modem conceptions concerning social policy, social organization, and social peace. All the art of social engineering could not place one stone upon another in the social edifice if the broad outlines of the system as an idea had not been projected long before, and if the seeds of the motivating ideals had not early been sowed in the hearts of men.”
Fred Polak (1907–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From Iran's different faiths, ethnic groups and social sectors, from the left to the right of the political spectrum, from my brave countrymen and women struggling for human dignity and freedom, this is the message I carry to you: As you face our oppressors, do not turn your back to us. We are your best friends in the struggle against a common enemy, the enemy of peace on earth.”
Reza Pahlavi (born 1960) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement by Reza Pahlavi of Iran - Democracy & Security Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, Jun. 5, 2007.
“It is a curious thing that relatively little attention has been directed toward working out methods for keeping the peace in a disarmed world. The technological The technological developments of the last twenty years have made disarmament a major concern of most nations, for it has become apparent that war is no longer an effective means for settling disputes between the great powers.”
John R. Platt (1918–1992) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Rich and John R. Platt (1966) "How to Keep the Peace" in: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. April 1966. p. 14
“If the question of the distribution of wealth were solved for all society and all lived in average comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that enduring joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Planning is the design of a desired future and of effective ways of bringing it about. It is an instrument that is used by the wise, but not by the wise alone. When conducted by lesser men it often becomes an irrelevant ritual that produces short-run peace of mind, but not the future that is longed for.”
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 1 as cited in: George David Hughes (1997) Marketing management: a planning approach. p. 14 and many other works.
“probably the education in nonviolent direct action couldn’t have been learned without a war. It had to take a war for people to learn that things could be defied and resisted. I think that was a very important legacy of the peace movement. (2000)”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Islamic call, when it emerged from these places and spread its light to all parts of the earth, was a good call that calls for peace, calls for truth, calls for justice and calls for equality, and this is what our noble Sharia achieves, and this is what we must follow and adhere to.”
Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mr. Lloyd George will not resign on anything anti-German. He is anti-German, and the trust which the reasonable Peace people place in him is altogether misplaced.”
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'From Green Benches', Leicester Pioneer (20 July 1911)
“When Sir Edward Grey failed to secure peace between Germany and Russia, he worked deliberately to involve us in the war, using Belgium as his chief excuse.”
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leicester Pioneer (7 August 1914), quoted in The Times (18 January 1924), p. 14
“Let us declare boldly in favour of disarmament. Let us put down our own proposals, arguing them, fighting for them, persuading people to join us, appealing not only to the reason but to the moral sense of the world. Great Britain marching clear away at the head of the great movement for international peace, that is our idea.”
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (24 May 1929), quoted in The Times (25 May 1929), p. 6