Peace Quotes

Not just the absence of war, but the presence of justice, understanding, and inner calm.

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"In the quiet moments, we find our truest selves."
Carson McCullers
"Silence can be more eloquent than all our carefully chosen words."
Carson McCullers
E
"A writer takes earnest measures to try and remain at peace with her conscience."
Eudora Welty
E
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but acceptance of what is."
Eudora Welty
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the transcendence of it."
Cormac McCarthy
S
"The world is too much with us; we must create inner stillness."
Saul Bellow
N
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to handle it."
Norman Mailer
J
"Peace is the absence of conflict and the presence of understanding."
Joseph Heller
S
"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict but from acceptance of it."
Saul Bellow
J
"You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there's always someone on the next barstool that wants to kill you."
J.D. Salinger
J
"It would be nice if everybody would leave everybody else alone."
J.D. Salinger
J
"I'm a pacifist at heart."
J.D. Salinger
J
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the acceptance of it."
Joseph Heller
N
"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the presence of justice."
Norman Mailer
"During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The real culture of the world is not in Paris or New York, but wherever individuals have found a way to live together in peace."
Kurt Vonnegut
"What is pertinent is the calmness of dispassionate attention."
David Foster Wallace
J
"Peace is merely the absence of noise between conflicts."
Joseph Heller
J
"Peace is earned through understanding, not through surrender."
Joseph Heller
J
"I really am. I'm a pacifist, I really am."
J.D. Salinger
W
"The only way to win is not to fight."
William S. Burroughs
W
"I have no taste for violence."
William S. Burroughs
A
"What if someone gave a war and nobody came"
Allen Ginsberg
A
"Peace begins within"
Allen Ginsberg
"Hand in hand we stand, all across this land; we can make this world a better place in which to live."
Kurt Vonnegut
"We are assembled here of all people to say that we do not like war."
Kurt Vonnegut
J
"Ah man, what I really want is to just sit back and let the whole machine roll by."
Jack Kerouac
J
"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict but from resolution."
Joseph Heller
J
"Peace is the silence between words."
Joseph Heller