# Quotes about peace - Quotes: 97 - Authors: 65 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.json ## Quotes > No, my boys, no! Don't accustom your spirits to wars of such huge scope, > > Don't use your strength and your vigour to disembowel your country! [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/no-my-boys.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > There is no salvation in war. [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/there-is-no-salvation.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > No doubt, there was peace after all this, but it was a peace stained with blood. [Tacitus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus.md) · [Annals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/annals.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/annals/no-doubt-there.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > And his will is our peace. [Dante Alighieri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri.md) · [The Divine Comedy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/the-divine-comedy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/the-divine-comedy/and-his-will.md) Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > I learned long ago that, when anyone spoke of peace, be it man or machine, they meant war. Peace through war. Peace was the standard. It was the inert state of all things. You didn’t need to expend energy for peace. Only war. [C. Robert Cargill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-robert-cargill.md) · [Day Zero](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-robert-cargill/day-zero.md) · p. 99 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-robert-cargill/day-zero/i-learned-long.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > They wanted peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it. They did not learn then, and have not learned since, that war only breeds war. [Norman Davies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-davies.md) · [Europe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-davies/europe.md) · p. 563 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-davies/europe/they-wanted-peace.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > The only real route to peace is through self-purification. We must purge ourselves of our own pride, our need to control, and our unwillingness to suffer for the sake of others. Peacemaking begins inside each of us. [M. Scott Peck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck.md) · [The Different Drum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck/the-different-drum.md) · p. 275 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck/the-different-drum/the-only-real.md) Topics: [pride](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > When there is no one else left to fight, then there will be nothing left but peace. [Wesley Chu](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu.md) · [The Rebirths of Tao](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-rebirths-of-tao.md) · p. 136 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-rebirths-of-tao/when-there-is-no-one.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Enlightenment and peace can never be achieved by force. [Wesley Chu](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu.md) · [The Lives of Tao](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-lives-of-tao.md) · p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-lives-of-tao/enlightenment-and-peace.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Now their long war was over and they could get on with the proper concern of civilized nations, which is to prepare for the next one. (p. 193) [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [Eric](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/eric.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/eric/now-their-long.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. [David Mitchell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell.md) · [Cloud Atlas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas.md) · p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas/peace-though-beloved.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [conscience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conscience.md) > “Nothing lasts,” he said, his voice guttural with age and remembered pain. “Neither knowledge, nor skill, nor family, nor the bond between master and student. In another thousand years I will be gone. And in time you both will pass as well, and this place will be dust. For all that we pride ourselves on our power and our length of years, Prince Kai, ultimately dragons too are as fleeting as fireflies. There was a time when we never existed; there will also come a time when nobody will remember us. War changes to peace. But, ultimately, peace collapses into war and the cycle continues.” > > “I’ve told you before, sir, you will be remembered as long as my fathers kingdom lasts.” Shan Yuan spoke with affection, clearly repeating an old reassurance. > > “That’s not as reassuring as you might think.” [Genevieve Cogman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman.md) · [The Dark Archive](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-dark-archive.md) · p. 135 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-dark-archive/nothing-lasts-he-said.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > “There is no truth to peace,” she said. “Peace is at best a brief interlude between hostilities. The treaties which might be signed here are no more than lies. The field of battle is more honest.” [Genevieve Cogman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman.md) · [The Mortal Word](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-mortal-word.md) · p. 209 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-mortal-word/there-is-no-truth.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Every day, at the moment when things get edgy, we can just ask ourselves, “Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?” [Pema Chödrön](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron.md) · [When Things Fall Apart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron/when-things-fall-apart.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron/when-things-fall-apart/every-day-at-the.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > I do not think you’ve gone far enough,” she says. “You speak of this war as if it is the start, but the maji and the monarchy have been fighting for decades. Centuries. Both sides have inflicted great pain on each other. Both sides are filled with mistrust.” [...] “You cannot blame Zélie for her actions any more than you can blame Inan for his past mistakes. You have to look beyond the surface if you truly want to achieve the peace you seek.” [Tomi Adeyemi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi.md) · [Children of Virtue and Vengeance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/i-do-not.md) Topics: [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again. (Epilogue) [Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [The Fifth Book of Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-fifth-book-of-peace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-fifth-book-of-peace/the-images-of-peace.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Linda wrote in her Ph.D. dissertation: "Vietnam duty provided the most unambiguous source of antiwar sentiment." War causes peace. (p227) [Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [The Fifth Book of Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-fifth-book-of-peace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-fifth-book-of-peace/linda-wrote-in-her.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Whatever there is when there isn't war has to be invented. What do people do in peace? Peace has barely been thought. (p306) [Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [Tripmaster Monkey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/tripmaster-monkey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/tripmaster-monkey/whatever-there-is-when.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > If a woman is going to write a Book of Peace, it is given her to know devastation. ("Fire" opening line) [Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [The Fifth Book of Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-fifth-book-of-peace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-fifth-book-of-peace/if-a-woman.md) Topics: [writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/writing.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > It had been designed for “peacekeeping,” which meant that it had been fitted out from stem to stern with the most hideous weapons of war that the human mind could conceive. [Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md) · [The Spheres of Heaven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-spheres-of-heaven.md) · p. 193 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-spheres-of-heaven/it-had-been.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Victor Hugo prophesied that in the twentieth century war would die, frontier boundaries would die, dogma would die—and man would live. "He will possess something higher than these—a great country, the whole earth... and a great hope, the whole heaven." [Marilyn Ferguson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson.md) · [The Aquarian Conspiracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/victor-hugo-prophesied.md) Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > We can begin anywhere—everywhere. "Let there be peace," says a bumper sticker, "and let it begin with me." Let there be health, learning, relationship, right uses of power, meaningful work.... Let there be transformation, and let it begin with me. [Marilyn Ferguson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson.md) · [The Aquarian Conspiracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/we-can-begin.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > There’s no war that will end all wars. [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Kafka on the Shore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore/theres-no-war.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > To become a vegan is by far the best way we have at this time in history to contribute to peace on Earth. Being a vegan in the world today is to be involved in a nonviolent, direct-action protest against cruelty and an affirmation of kindness. [Sharon Gannon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sharon-gannon.md) · [Simple Recipes for Joy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sharon-gannon/simple-recipes-for-joy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sharon-gannon/simple-recipes-for-joy/to-become-a-vegan.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [veganism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/veganism.md) > Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker. [Jordan B. Peterson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson.md) · [Maps of Meaning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/maps-of-meaning.md) · p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/maps-of-meaning/every-explorer-is-therefore.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > “What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.” [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Bleak House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house/what-is-peace.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > The governments hated the peace party even more than each other, since their existence now depended on war. [Olaf Stapledon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon.md) · [Last And First Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/last-and-first-men.md) · p. 50 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/last-and-first-men/the-governments-hated.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > As the months of agony advanced, there was bred in the warring peoples a genuine and even passionate will for peace and a united world. Out of the conflict of the tribes arose, at least for a while, a spirit loftier than tribalism. But this fervour lacked as yet clear guidance, lacked even the courage of conviction. [Olaf Stapledon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon.md) · [Last And First Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/last-and-first-men.md) · p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/last-and-first-men/as-the-months.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > What good is peace if it must be purchased with the blood of little children? [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Dance with Dragons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/what-good-is-peace.md) Topics: [children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever exist. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Dance with Dragons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/so-long-as-men.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [revenge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revenge.md) > Wars need not be fought until the last drop of blood. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Storm of Swords](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/wars-need-not.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > When there are no battles to fight, men start to think of hearth and harvest. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Clash of Kings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/when-there-are.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones-the-illustrated-edition.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones-the-illustrated-edition/it-is-no-good.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > “The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.” [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones-the-illustrated-edition.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones-the-illustrated-edition/the-common-people.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed. [John Scalzi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi.md) · [Zoe's Tale](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi/zoes-tale.md) · p. 302 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi/zoes-tale/i-guess-i-was.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Often Burne found himself saying, “I don’t think you would make a very good soldier,” and with grating predictability he heard that he wouldn’t make a very good pacifist. [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md) · [The Wine of Violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence.md) · p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence/often-burne-found.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > 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](https://www.leafyquotes.com/justina-robson.md) · [Natural History](https://www.leafyquotes.com/justina-robson/natural-history.md) · p. 291 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/justina-robson/natural-history/the-gun-is-a-consequence.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price. [Edmund Cooper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper.md) · [The Uncertain Midnight](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/the-uncertain-midnight.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/the-uncertain-midnight/perhaps-justified-violence.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Peace is meaningless without freedom. [N. K. Jemisin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin.md) · [The Kingdom Of Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods.md) · p. 514 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/peace-is-meaningless.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > I am a peaceful man, captain. I rely more on my cerebral cortex than my guns. [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md) · [The Long Way Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home.md) · p. 160 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home/i-am-a-peaceful.md) Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > “Peace,” he added, “is kept by the good will and strength of the peaceful.” [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md) · [Vault of the Ages](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/vault-of-the-ages.md) · p. 160 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/vault-of-the-ages/peace-he-added.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > "I have marched in many a battle host," Adaon answered quietly, "but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood." [Lloyd Alexander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander.md) · [The Black Cauldron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-black-cauldron.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-black-cauldron/i-have-marched.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > "This is a place of peace," Medwyn said, "and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet." [Lloyd Alexander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander.md) · [The Book of Three](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-book-of-three.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-book-of-three/this-is-a-place.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > I do not see that it is necessary for any people to prove to another that they build cathedrals or pyramids before they can be entitled to peace and safety. [Chinua Achebe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe.md) · [The Education of a British-Protected Child](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/the-education-of-a-british-protected-child.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/the-education-of-a-british-protected-child/i-do-not.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [human rights](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-rights.md) > It should be our endeavour to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most, when we shall have carried our point against her. Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent of whatever they may chuse to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs. Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is their interest to go to war. [Thomas Jefferson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson.md) · [Notes on the State of Virginia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia.md) · p. 189 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia/it-should-be-our.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [economy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/economy.md) > Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy. [Francis Fukuyama](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-fukuyama.md) · [The End of History and the Last Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-fukuyama/the-end-of-history-and-the-last-man.md) · p. 330 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-fukuyama/the-end-of-history-and-the-last-man/experience-suggests-that.md) Topics: [democracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy.md), [boredom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Noting with dismay that most cross-religion bickering occurred only because all the major religions were convinced that they were the right one and every other religion was the wrong one, the founders of the Global Standard Deity based their fledgling “portmanteau” faith on the premise that most religions want the same thing once all the shameless, manipulative power play had been subtracted: peace, stability, equality and justice—the same as the nonfaiths. As soon as they found that centralizing thread that unites all people and makes a dialogue of sorts with a Being of Supreme Moral Authority mostly optional, the GSD flourished. [Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md) · [First Among Sequels](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/first-among-sequels.md) · p. 125 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/first-among-sequels/noting-with-dismay.md) Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Holy is the hand that works for peace and for justice, > > holy is the mouth that speaks for goodness, > > holy is the foot that walks toward mercy. [Marge Piercy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy.md) · [The Art of Blessing the Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/the-art-of-blessing-the-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/the-art-of-blessing-the-day/holy-is-the.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > After wars peace, after peace, another war. Every day men are born and others die. [Simone de Beauvoir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir.md) · [All Men Are Mortal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/after-wars-peace.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Avoidance of a global war of civilizations depends on world leaders accepting and cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics. [Samuel P. Huntington](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-p-huntington.md) · [The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-p-huntington/the-clash-of-civilizations-and-the-remaking-of-world-order.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-p-huntington/the-clash-of-civilizations-and-the-remaking-of-world-order/avoidance-of-a-global.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [civilization](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/civilization.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > As Gandhi taught, freedom can be reclaimed only by refusing to cooperate with unjust, immoral laws. The fight for truth—employing the principles of civil disobedience, nonviolence, and noncooperation—is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth. (p184) [Vandana Shiva](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vandana-shiva.md) · [Earth Democracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vandana-shiva/earth-democracy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vandana-shiva/earth-democracy/as-gandhi-taught.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. [Thich Nhat Hanh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh.md) · [Being Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace/if-a-child.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [smiling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/smiling.md) > Doing things in this way has a good effect on everyone, teaching by example, not just with words. When your child is agitated, you don't have to say, "Go to that room!" You can take his or her hand and walk together into the room for breathing, and sit quietly together. This is the best education for peace. It is really beautiful to begin the day by being a Buddha. Each time we feel ourselves about to leave our Buddha, we can sit and breathe until we return to our true self. [Thich Nhat Hanh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh.md) · [Being Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace/doing-things-in-this.md) Topics: [upbringing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/upbringing.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > There is a lot of anger, frustration, and misunderstanding in the peace movement. The peace movement can write very good protest letters, but they are not yet able to write a love letter. We need to learn to write a letter to the Congress or to the president of the United States that they will want to read, and not just throw away. The way you speak, the kind of understanding, the kind of language you use should not turn people off. The president is a person like any of us. [Thich Nhat Hanh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh.md) · [Being Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace/there-is-a-lot.md) Topics: [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > "I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in—like peace and justice and freedom." [Banksy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy.md) · [Wall and Piece](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy/wall-and-piece.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy/wall-and-piece/i-like-to-think.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > I think this is called peace. We used to have it all the time. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [Settling Accounts: In at the Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-in-at-the-death.md) · p. 229 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-in-at-the-death/i-think-this.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Was that savage cynicism or sage common sense? When it came to gauging the chances of peace and war, how much difference was there? [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [Settling Accounts: In at the Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-in-at-the-death.md) · p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-in-at-the-death/was-that-savage.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [cynicism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cynicism.md) > His action shows convincingly that there is no chance of expecting that this man will ever give up his practice of using force to gain his will. He can only be stopped by force. We have a clear conscience. We have done all that any country could do to establish peace. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [Settling Accounts: Return Engagement](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-return-engagement.md) · p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-return-engagement/his-action-shows.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Peacetime, though, felt like summertime. Even as you enjoyed it, you knew it wouldn’t last. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [American Empire: The Victorious Opposition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition.md) · p. 450 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition/peacetime-though-felt.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage. [Thucydides](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides.md) · [History of the Peloponnesian War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/abstinence-from-all.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > We always assume that living, breathing, sensible creatures want peace. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [The Fresco](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-fresco.md) · p. 217 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-fresco/we-always-assume.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict. [E. F. Schumacher](https://www.leafyquotes.com/e-f-schumacher.md) · [Small Is Beautiful](https://www.leafyquotes.com/e-f-schumacher/small-is-beautiful.md) · p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/e-f-schumacher/small-is-beautiful/it-is-doubly.md) Topics: [greed](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. [Alexander Hamilton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton.md) · [The Federalist Papers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers/let-us-recollect.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [ambition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > As there is a time for everything, there is a time also for the end of anything. This is an age for the consolidation of man’s gains upon this world. This is a time for the sharing of knowledge, not the crossing of blades. [Roger Zelazny](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny.md) · [Lord of Light](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light.md) · p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/as-there-is-a-time.md) Topics: [knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull. [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The City in the Autumn Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars.md) · p. 407 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/he-had-thought.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > “Are you trying to talk peace terms?” > > “I’ve given that up,” said Makhno. “It doesn’t appear to work. You mention peace and everyone tries to shoot you or jail you.” [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The Steel Tsar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar.md) · p. 368 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar/are-you-trying.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Without access to true chaos we'll never have true peace. [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md) · [Choke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/choke.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/choke/without-access-to-true.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [chaos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/chaos.md) > What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality. [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md) · [Four Ways to Forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/four-ways-to-forgiveness.md) · p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/four-ways-to-forgiveness/what-would-that.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > As we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial. A boundless and generous contentment, a magnanimous triumph felt not against some outer enemy but in communion with the finest and fairest in the souls of all men everywhere and the splendor of the world’s summer: this is what swells the hearts of the people of Omelas, and the victory they celebrate is that of life. [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md) · [The Wind’s Twelve Quarters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-winds-twelve-quarters.md) · p. 255 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-winds-twelve-quarters/as-we-did.md) Topics: [joy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war. [Wendell Berry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry.md) · [Citizenship Papers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/citizenship-papers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/citizenship-papers/if-we-are.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Our century of war, militarism, and political terror has produced great — and successful — advocates of true peace, among whom Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., are the paramount examples. The considerable success that they achieved testifies to the presence, in the midst of violence, of an authentic and powerful desire for peace and, more important, of the proven will to make the necessary sacrifices. [Wendell Berry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry.md) · [Citizenship Papers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/citizenship-papers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/citizenship-papers/our-century-of-war.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [pacifism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pacifism.md) > We are disposed, somewhat by culture and somewhat by nature, to solve our problems by violence, and even to enjoy doing so. And yet by now all of us must at least have suspected that our right to live, to be free, and to be at peace is not guaranteed by any act of violence. It can be guaranteed only by our willingness that all other persons should live, be free, and be at peace — and by our willingness to use or give our own lives to make that possible. [Wendell Berry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry.md) · [Citizenship Papers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/citizenship-papers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/citizenship-papers/we-are-disposed.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Wars have never made peace or preserved it or fostered its ideals. To have peace you must make peace with your enemy. To make peace only with your friends is to avoid the issue, and to permit a great principle to become absurd. Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war. [Wendell Berry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry.md) · [The Long-Legged House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/the-long-legged-house.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/the-long-legged-house/wars-have-never.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded and that no matter how high we go it is from our roots that we draw sustenance. It is a reminder to all of us who have had success that we cannot forget where we came from. It signifies that no matter how powerful we become in government or how many awards we receive, our power and strength and our ability to reach our goals depend on the people, those whose work remain unseen, who are the soil out of which we grow, the shoulders on which we stand. [Wangari Maathai](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wangari-maathai.md) · [Unbowed](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wangari-maathai/unbowed.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wangari-maathai/unbowed/trees-are-living.md) Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [humility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humility.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Since war is not an act of senseless passion but is controlled by its political object, the value of this object must determine the sacrifices to be made for it in magnitude and also in duration. Once the expenditure of effort exceeds the value of the political object, the object must be renounced and peace must follow. > > We see then that if one side cannot completely disarm the other, the desire for peace on either side will rise and fall with the probability of further successes and the amount of effort these would require. If such incentives were of equal strength on both sides, the two would resolve their political disputes by meeting half way. If the incentive grows on one side, it should diminish on the other. '''Peace will result so long as their sum total is sufficient — though the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain. [Carl von Clausewitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz.md) · [On War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz/on-war.md) · p. 34 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz/on-war/since-war-is-not.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. [Carl von Clausewitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz.md) · [On War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz/on-war.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz/on-war/the-conqueror-is-always.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > He doesn't belong to a race clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live at peace with itself. [John Steinbeck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md) · [Travels with Charley in Search of America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/he-doesnt-belong.md) Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war, no peace but capitulation. And even that, as we see around us, doesn't lead to further peace but to further degradation and exploitation. We're responsible for not only what we do but for what is in our power to stop. Before we can speak of peace, we have to speak honestly of stopping, by any and all means possible, those who have declared war on the world and on us. Those who destroy wont stop because we ask nicely. There is only one language that they understand, and everyone here knows what it is. Yet we don't speak of it openly. [Derrick Jensen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen.md) · [A Language Older Than Words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen/a-language-older-than-words.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen/a-language-older-than-words/there-can-be-no-real.md) Topics: [responsibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. [Nelson Mandela](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela.md) · [Long Walk to Freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela/long-walk-to-freedom.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela/long-walk-to-freedom/if-you-want.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md) > I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. [Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Under Western Eyes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes/i-take-it-that.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Time Enough For Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love/you-can-have.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > "Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Starship Troopers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/starship-troopers.md) · p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/starship-troopers/peace-is-a-condition.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. But he saw nothing. The war was as removed and far off as two flies battling to the death in the arch of a great high and silent cathedral. And just as senseless... > > “What are you looking at so hard, Dad?” > > “I was looking for Earthian logic, common sense, good government, peace, and responsibility.” > > “All that up there?” > > “No. I didn’t find it. It’s not there any more. Maybe it’ll never be there again. Maybe we fooled ourselves that it was ever there.” [Ray Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury.md) · [The Martian Chronicles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-martian-chronicles.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-martian-chronicles/timothy-looked-at-the.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > "Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum. [Christopher Hitchens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens.md) · [For the Sake of Argument](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/for-the-sake-of-argument.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/for-the-sake-of-argument/peace-through-strength.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men. [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md) · [Madouc](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/madouc.md) · p. 750 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/madouc/what-is-peace.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > That a man be willing, when others are so too, as farre-forth, as for Peace, and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. [Thomas Hobbes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes.md) · [Leviathan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan.md) · p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/that-a-man.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [equality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It — there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations. [Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [Capitalism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/capitalism.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/capitalism/so-long-as-men.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [individualism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/individualism.md) > We should begin in our own environment and in our own community as far as possible to build a peace-loving attitude and learn to discipline ourselves to accept, in the small things of our lives, mediation and arbitration. As individuals, there is little that any of us can do to prevent an accidental use of bombs in the hands of those who already have them. We can register, however, with our government a firm protest against granting the knowledge and the use of these weapons to those who do not now have them. (20 December 1961) [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt.md) · [My Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day/we-should-begin.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [nuclear weapons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nuclear-weapons.md) > A consciousness of the fact that war means practically total destruction is the reason, I think, for the rising tide to prevent what seems such a senseless procedure. I understand that it is perhaps difficult for some people, whose lives have been lived with a sense of the need for military development, to envisage the possibility of being no longer needed. But the average citizen is beginning to think more and more of the need to develop machinery to settle difficulties in the world without destruction or the use of atomic bombs. (20 December 1961) [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt.md) · [My Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day/a-consciousness-of-the.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [nuclear weapons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nuclear-weapons.md) > This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people. (16 April 1954 ) [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt.md) · [My Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day/this-is-a-time.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [nuclear weapons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nuclear-weapons.md) > In times past, the question usually asked by women was "How can we best help to defend our nation?" I cannot remember a time when the question on so many people's lips was "How can we prevent war?" > > There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war. For many years war has been looked upon as almost inevitable in the solution of any question that has arisen between nations, and the nation that was strong enough to do so went about building up its defenses and its power to attack. It felt that it could count on these two things for safety. (20 December 1961) [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt.md) · [My Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day/in-times-past.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. (15 April 1943) [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt.md) · [My Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day/at-all-times.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. Then if we are forced into war, it will be because there has been no way to prevent it through negotiation and the mobilization of world opinion. In which case we should have the voluntary support of many nations, which is far better than the decision of one nation alone, or even of a few nations. (16 April 1954) [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt.md) · [My Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day/the-mobilization-of-world.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > Peace demands solutions, but we never reach living solutions; we only work toward them. A fixed solution is, by definition, a dead solution. The trouble with peace is that it tends to punish mistakes instead of rewarding brilliance. [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Children Of Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/peace-demands-solutions.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md) > He will never set two dogs to fight, he will never set a dog to chase a cat. This peaceful spirit is one of the results of his education, which has never stimulated self-love or a high opinion of himself, and so has not encouraged him to seek his pleasure in domination and in the sufferings of others. The sight of suffering makes him suffer too; this is a natural feeling. It is one of the after effects of vanity that hardens a young man and makes him take a delight in seeing the torments of a living and feeling creature; it makes him consider himself beyond the reach of similar sufferings through his superior wisdom or virtue. He who is beyond the reach of vanity cannot fall into the vice which results from vanity. So Emile loves peace. He is delighted at the sight of happiness, and if he can help to bring it about, this is an additional reason for sharing it. I do not assume that when he sees the unhappy he will merely feel for them that barren and cruel pity which is content to pity the ills it can heal. His kindness is active and teaches him much he would have learnt far more slowly, or he would never have learnt at all, if his heart had been harder. If he finds his comrades at strife, he tries to reconcile them; if he sees the afflicted, he inquires as to the cause of their sufferings; if he meets two men who hate each other, he wants to know the reason of their enmity; if he finds one who is down-trodden groaning under the oppression of the rich and powerful, he tries to discover by what means he can counteract this oppression, and in the interest he takes with regard to all these unhappy persons, the means of removing their sufferings are never out of his sight. What use shall we make of this disposition so that it may re-act in a way suited to his age? Let us direct his efforts and his knowledge, and use his zeal to increase them. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/he-will-never.md) Topics: [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [vanity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/vanity.md) > When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken. [Ernesto Che Guevara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara.md) · [Guerrilla Warfare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare/when-the-forces.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [tyranny](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny.md) > We're playing those mind games together > > Pushing the barriers, planting seeds > > Playing the mind guerrilla > > Chanting the mantra, Peace on Earth. [John Lennon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-lennon.md) · [Mind Games](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-lennon/mind-games.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-lennon/mind-games/were-playing-those.md) Topics: [music](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/music.md), [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md)