PEACE QUOTES VII
quotations about peace
Even in great wars--in Vietnam or in today's Middle East as we battle extremists--weapons are never enough, nor are the billions of dollars being spent. Winning "hearts and minds" is key because that is essential to social cohesion, to finding a common direction, to keeping the peace. Peace, in fact, depends on love. And if war is "hard power" at work, then it should be clear that love is harder still.
DAVID ROTHKOPF
"The Secret Ingredient for Peace", Foreign Policy, March 17, 2016
Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Nobel Prize acceptance speech, December 10, 1964
Peace will come when there is realization that only under a reign of law, based on righteousness and supported by the religious conviction of the brotherhood of man, can there be any hope of a complete and satisfying life. Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be triumphant.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925
Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him who has freed his heart from its lusts and hatreds and dark desires; and he who, without any shadow of bitterness or selfishness resting upon him, and looking out upon the world with boundless compassion and love, can breathe in his inmost heart, the blessing: Peace unto all living things.
JAMES ALLEN
Byways of Blessedness
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
attributed, Eleanor and Franklin