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“For better is knowledge than constant practice; and than knowledge meditation is more excellent; than meditation, abandonment of the fruit of work; after abandonment, peace ensues.”
W. Douglas P. Hill (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hold peace and war in my toga but I'l take a cherry flip Today nobody knows whether he was tomorrow They beat time with a coffin lid If somebody had the nerve to rip the tail feathers out of the trolley car it's a great age...”
Richard Huelsenbeck (1892–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a war, you know, between Cosmos and Chaos, between order and entropy, between reason and unreason. This forms the fundamental basis of existence; I do not see how any victory or lasting peace is possible. The most one can hope for is temporary compromises, temporary armistice. You are not the first victim of this terrible conflict.”
John C. Wright (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a lot of changes in my life since I turned 40. In fact, even since I turned 50. I became a vegetarian. I have never felt better in my life. I have more energy, I'm so much more alert. I lost 20 pounds, that's right! I really really recommend going vegetarian whatever time in your life. Peace begins on your plate. I'm Carol Leifer and I'm a vegan.”
Carol Leifer (born 1956) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Carol Leifer: Vegetarian Testimonial (Life After 40),” ad for PETA (13 July 2009).
“Relations across the strait, whether war or peace, now lies in the hands of presidents Chen Shui-bian and Jiang Zemin.”
Chen Shui-tsai (born 1948) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chen Shui-tsai (2000) cited in "A View From Kinmen" on Asia Week, 2 June 2000.
“Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.”
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At peace,above my sicknesssummer smolders.”
Ōta Hakusetsu (1661–1735) said by 1735 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m very close to my mum. She has a strong faith that gives her this amazing sense of peace. I admire her; she's a very strong woman.”
Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolores O'Riordan on life with and without The Cranberries", in The Irish News (6 May 2017)
“As Shakespeare’s Hamlet intoned, “The readiness is all.” The essential task of keeping the peace stands not on the triviality of opinion poll numbers or inter-Korean projects but the paramount importance of prescience and planning.”
Sung-Yoon Lee (born 1901) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe we should extend our care and concern to all living creatures with whom we share this planet. ... [Animals] give me a window into a world that is different from our own, but every bit as meaningful. ... I can’t imagine what life would be like without animals. They bring me happiness and a sense of calm and peace.”
Alyssa Milano (born 1972) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alyssa Milano on Pets and Best Friends", interview with Parade (24 June 2013).
“Appreciation of Mother Earth, her creatures, and the glories of the universe is the job of every human being. We were created to live nonviolently in peace with one another on Mother Earth and celebrate the beauty of creation morning, noon, and night.”
“Being a veganist is good for your health, it's good for the environment, and it's certainly good for the animals, but it also has a powerful spiritual component. When you begin eating consciously, with compassion and thoughtfulness, you attain a certain lightness and inner peace, a sense of connectedness to the larger world.”
Kathy Freston (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since advancing freedom of the press furthers democracy, spreading freedom of the press promotes world peace. And the reverse logic is also true. Without democracies, there will be war; without freedom of the press, democracies cannot exist.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Freedom of the press—a way to peace,” ASNE Bulletin (February 1989), p. 27. ASNE stands for the American Association of Newspaper Editors
“The theory is that democratic systems provide a path to peace, and universalizing them would eliminate war and minimize global, political violence”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The social structure of a free, democratic society creates the psychological conditions for its greater internal peace.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is impossible. Freedom is dead. Freedom is an absolute, a divine measure, just like goodness, evil, and happiness. It is impossible to achieve it, but striving for it is the only way to come closer to peace. The task of a human is to defend the maximum possible level of freedom in the enslavement of nature.”
Mykola Ovcharov (born 1988) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book "The Little Ethics", 2024
“Exactly what kind of peace agreement (with Mainland China) are we (Taiwan) signing, if we sign one at this moment?”
Chen Ming-tong (born 1955) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chen Ming-tong (2019) cited in "Premier opposes peace agreement with China" on Focus Taiwan, 19 February 2019.
“With us [in office], there will be no such human rights politicking. These bandits will die, because we will not send resources from the government to them. Instead of peace, these NGOs do a disservice to our Brazil.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At an event in Araçatuba on 23 August 2018. Bolsonaro diz que se eleito 'bandidagem vai morrer' porque União não repassará recursos para direitos humanos. G1 (23 August 2018).
“They agonise in sordid tenements, with children stabled worse than sheep or kye. O, how can grace or peace or health abide such poverty?”
Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines for the Scottish Watch", st. 3, in Sea Buckthorn (1954)
“Now it can become clear to man that freedom and peace of the nations can only come when as Jesus and his followers, and in our time above all Tolstoi advised, they choose to fully abstain from any violence.”
Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter from Landauer to Martin Buber 1914, quoted in Martin Buber's Life and Work, vol. I by M. Friedman 1981, pp. 251-252
“I hear I am being attacked both in Prussian and American papers for being too hard on the Chinese and thus delaying the conclusion of peace. This is the outcome of ill-will and ignorance of the conditions ... One can advance things here only by taking as strong and as relentless measures as possible.”
Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Waldersee in his diary, 17 December 1900, in Beijing
“We will secure peace, over the corpses of the counterrevolutionary command staff if necessary.”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) first seen 1689 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Krylenko after being named commander-in-chief on the Russian Army in November 1917. Quoted in Brian Taylor, Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000
“He was ashamed and embarrassed, angry too that such a man could end like this. If peace did eventually come, there would be many more redcoats begging in the streets.”
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let the gym be a sanctuary for you to be at peace. Let it calm you and ground you and allow you to appreciate everything around you. Let it also be a place for you to unload and explode with intensity through your training.”
Robert Cheeke (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You did not break me I'm still fighting for peace”
Sia (musician) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , (2013). Cowritten with , and .
“I want peace, I want brotherhood, I want prosperity, I want jobs for youth, I want food.”
Muharrem İnce (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But ah! what a drear hell it was we now had to venture through! What a maelstrom of relentless gorging, one creature upon another! The claws and jaws of the upper world are red enough—who denies it?—but the carnage has intermissions, periods of amiable association, zones of green peace and fructification. In the subworlds, the merciless seethe of appetites never simmers down.”
Michael Shea (1946–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[No evidence exists to support the assertions that a threat to world peace or security exists in South West Africa.]”
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thoughts and dreams don’t die. Belief in freedom and justice does not perish with imprisonment, torture or even death and tyranny do not prevail over freedom, even when they rely on the power of the state. Sitting here in the prison, I am deeply humbled by the honor you have bestowed on me and I will continue my efforts until we achieve peace, tolerance for a plurality of views, and human rights.”
Narges Mohammadi (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unhappily, a love of walls has seized you; unhappily, the Church of God which you venerate exists in houses and buildings; unhappily, under these you find the name of peace. Is it doubtful that in these Antichrist will have his seat? Safer to me are mountains, and woods, and lakes, and dungeons, and whirlpools; since in these prophets, dwelling or immersed, did prophesy.”
Hilary of Poitiers (315–367) said by 367 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom of expression cannot be the freedom to tell lies, the prophet did not found a terrorist religion, but a religion of peace.”
Dalil Boubakeur (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Among the workers there is spreading a theory of the absolute blessedness of peace, which is a scandal to the intelligence and moral energy of our age; a hotch-potch of phrases, so clear that everybody reposts them, and so miserable that every man who is a man throws them overboard at once when the majesty of war arises in bodily form before the people.”
Heinrich von Treitschke (1834–1896) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Historische und Politische Aufsatze, 1865, Vol. I, p. 782, quoted in Joseph McCabe, Treitschke and the Great War (London: T.F. Unwin, 1914), p. 175.
“Those who preach the nonsense of eternal peace do not understand Aryan national life.”
Heinrich von Treitschke (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Politik, 4th ed., 1918, Vol. i, p. 74, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 93.
“…At the time of his return he restored the fort of Dholpur also to Binayik Deo, and having spent the rainy season in Agra after the rising of the Canopus in the year AH 910 (AD 1504), marched to reduce the fortress of Mandrayal, which lie took without fighting from the Rajah of Mandrayal, who sued for peace; he also destroyed all the idol-temples and churches of the place…”
`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (1540–1615) first seen 1489 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sultan Sikandar Lodi (AD 1489-1517) Mandrail (Madhya Pradesh)
“It is in peace that regulations and routine become important and that the qualities of boldness and originality are cramped.”
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Peace Treaty too Lenient for the Harshness it Contains [Une Paix trop douce pour ce qu'elle a de dur].”
Jacques Bainville (1879–1936) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Title of an article in Action Française on the Treaty of Versailles (8 May 1919), quoted in William R. Keylor, Jacques Bainville and the Renaissance of Royalist History in Twentieth-Century France (1979), p. 137
“Russian GDP equals that of Italy – it should not be an existential threat to the West. We must shake ourselves free from the Kremlin’s masterful fiction and confront the truth that we are in an asymmetric war. This is a war that we can win, and it matters that we do. We are sleepwalking through the end of our era of peace. It is time to wake up.”
Eerik-Niiles Kross (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am going to help everyone I can to understand the Buddha’s teachings, I am going to help everyone I can to recite the Great Compassion Mantra and the Heart Sutra, I am going to let everyone know how great the Buddha’s teachings are. I am going to make world peace a reality.”
Jun Hong Lu (1959–2021) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Master Jun Hong Lu - Ambassador of Peace Education, YouTube, 2016
“I venture to hope that...the Government will approach the question with a desire to deal in the most liberal manner they can with Ireland, and to give her, if need be, more than justice requires, in order that we may bring about peace. That would be good policy in the long run.”
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838–1922) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Lords during the Irish War of Independence (16 June 1921)
“It thus became vital to the peace of the planters' minds that the frustrations of the "crackers," "sandhillers," or "poor white trash" be diminished or placated at all costs. This involved, first and foremost, keeping the bogeyman of race ever before the nonslaveholders' eyes, for whatever hatreds the poor whites nursed against the planters, they nursed still greater ones against blacks.”
Allen C. Guelzo (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the moment they took a republic rather than a monarchy as the shape of their government, Americans prided themselves on being a nation of peace, dedicated to the arts of commerce rather than the rapacity of empire and "the spirit of war.”
Allen C. Guelzo (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if your grave doesnt say "rest in peace" on it you are automatically drafted into the skeleton war”
“Except not a moment of peace from love of self, except no lofty position from lack of will. Worldliness brings no profit – Become insignificant, seek no increase.”
Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fake research institutions, “peace movements,” fictitious political groupings, useful idiots, and agents of influence, both paid and unpaid…We’ve been here before, too. True, the ideology has changed. These days Russia supports whoever is willing to promote its interests, whether far-left or far-right, and whoever can help undermine the established European order.”
Anne Applebaum (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Canonical Law and Faith apprehended many kinds of disturbance from his life. So, the Emperor, both out of necessity to protect the Faith and Holy Law, and also for reasons of State, considered it unlawful to allow Dara to remain alive any longer as a destroyer of the public peace.” Thus does the official history published under Aurangzib’s authority justify this act of political murder.”
Dara Shukoh (1615–1659) said by 1659 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Sarkar J. History Aurangzib also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.
“Faith brings peace. Faith brings joy.”
Rachel Scott (1981–1999) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Desperate Measures" (25 April 1998), as quoted in Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine (2008), by Beth Nimmo, Darrell Scott, and Steve Rabey, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, p. 127
“Today I tell you, and I declare it to the whole world, that we accept to live with you in permanent peace based on justice. We do not want to encircle you or be encircled ourselves by destructive missiles ready for launching, nor by the shells of grudges and hatreds.”
Anwar Sadat (1918–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am convinced that we owe it to this generation and the generations to come, not to leave a stone unturned in our pursuit of peace.”
Anwar Sadat (1918–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not deny the State of Israel’s right to be recognized by all countries of the region, provided that the whole situation is normalized. A peace agreement should provide for the establishment of a Palestinian State in the West Bank of the Jordan and the Gaza Strip, and Israel should withdraw from the territories it occupied in 1967.”
Anwar Sadat (1918–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One China; peace on both sides of the (Taiwan) Strait; mutually beneficial integration; strive for a Chinese revival.”
Lien Chan (born 1936) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lien Chan (2013) cited in "Inside China: Taiwan VIP’s pilgrimage to Beijing" on The Washington Times, 7 March 2013.