Quotes about Peace
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.
by Andre Gide (Novelist, French , born in 1869) keywords: combat, direct, easier, labors, lead, men, passion, patient, peace, restrain, stirring, than, their, them, toward , up The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
by Dag Hammarskjold (Diplomat, Swedish , born in 1905) keywords: abandoned, cannot, defeat, either, end, errors, few, never, peace, progress, pursuit, relaxed, setbacks, successes, trials, victory , years Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
by Thomas Jefferson (President, American , born in 1743) keywords: friendship, mankind, may, our, peace, permitted, policy, pursue, wisest , wish War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
by H. L. Mencken (Writer, American , born in 1880) keywords: babies, begin, cease, come, glands, into, larger, never, smaller, until, war, will , world A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
by William Shakespeare (Dramatist, English , born in 1970) keywords: both, conquest, loser, nature, neither, nobly, parties, party, peace, subdued , then Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
by Baruch Spinoza (Philosopher , born in 1632) keywords: absence, benevolence, confidence, disposition, justice, mind, peace, state, virtue , war Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
by John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet, American , born in 1807) keywords: battle, ever, hath, higher, knew, manhood, peace, tests , than
