"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

"Peace begins with a smile.."
— Mother Teresa

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
— John Lennon

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed."
— Fred Rogers

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."
— Milan Kundera

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
— Albert Schweitzer

"War is over ... If you want it."
— John Lennon

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.'"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about- the more you have left if anything goes wrong."
— Ethel Barrymore

"When the power of love over overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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— *Jimmy Hendrix

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

"No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons."
— Herodotus (The Histories)

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
— Havelock Ellis

""The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us." "
— Black Elk

"True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace."
— Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

"“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”"
— Virginia Woolf

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
— Moshe Dayan

"A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind."
— Daisaku Ikeda (The Human Revolution)

"The peace of God is that eternal calm which, like the cushion of the sea, lies far too deep down to be reached by any external trouble or disturbance; and he who enters into the presence of God becomes a partaker of that undisturbed and undisturbable calm."
— A.J. Pierson

""Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not, himself, find peace."

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— Albert Schweitzer (Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer)

""...until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
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— Martin Luther King Jr.

"As most men are fettered by bonds of tradition and by imitating the ways followed by their fathers, ancestors, relatives, and acquaintances; everyone continues, without investigating the arguments and reasons, to follow the religion in which he was born and educated thus excluding himself from the possibility of ascertaining the truth, which is the noblest aim of the human intellect. THEREFORE, WE, associate at convenient seasons with learned men of all religions [and of no religion], thus deriving profit from their exquisite discourses and exalted aspirations."
— Akbar, 1582 (Emperor of Muhgal Empire/Inida)

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. "
— Locke

"I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict."
— Donzella Michele Malone

"Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace"
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."
— Aesop

""Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.""
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey)

"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent."
— George Orwell

"In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all."
— Herbert Edward Read