Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. Frederick Buechner on peace
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. Henry Miller on peace
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. Nelson Mandela on peace
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. Sai Baba on peace
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi on peace
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. Theodore Roosevelt on peace
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. Albert Camus on peace
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. Theodore Roosevelt on peace
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein on peace
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Francis of Assisi on peace
Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. Nelson Mandela on peace
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. Abraham Maslow on peace
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. Nelson Mandela on peace
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. Nelson Mandela on peace
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. Theodore Roosevelt on peace
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie on peace
Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. Joseph Auslander on peace
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther on peace
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus on peace