The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost."

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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