Peace Quotes

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

20711 quotes

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"The war is long over. Stop flying missions."
Yossarian
R
"You have to learn to live with your own ghosts."
Randle McMurphy
D
"I wish to be forgiven, but I do not know how to forgive myself"
Dmitri Karamazov
B
"I just want to be let alone."
Billy Bibbit
J
"To forgive is not to forget; it is to remember without hatred."
Jean Valjean
J
"Forgiveness is not weakness but the ultimate expression of strength."
Jean Valjean
P
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
Pierre Bezukhov
B
"I have already seen the end of the world. It is nice."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
Billy Pilgrim
L
"The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want."
Lenina Crowne
M
"The savage is right—we've sacrificed everything for peace."
Mustapha Mond
M
"We have sacrificed humanity for peace."
Mustapha Mond
B
"Drink calmly, and all the time I am thinking of you."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"He wanted to feel nothing. Then he could feel nothing."
Billy Pilgrim
H
"You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful."
Holden Caulfield
H
"The worst thing about it is, you can't ever find a quiet place."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'm not too concerned with it."
Holden Caulfield
M
"That's the price we have to pay for stability."
Mustapha Mond
N
"The ward is a place of rest for us, not punishment."
Nurse Ratched
J
"If you wish to be brothers, the sword must yield to the spade."
Jean Valjean
M
"Stability. Stability. The primal and the ultimate need."
Mustapha Mond
K
"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres"
Kurt Vonnegut
M
"The deepest instinct of man is to war against war"
Mustapha Mond
B
"Everything is nothing, and it's so peaceful."
Billy Pilgrim
M
"Yes, that's another item in the cost of stability."
Mustapha Mond
M
"The absence of strong feeling is the essence of stability."
Mustapha Mond
H
"I'm quite a pacifist, I really am."
Holden Caulfield
H
"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful."
Holden Caulfield
L
"Nobody gonna hurt nobody"
Lennie Small
B
"The war was over in my head."
Billy Pilgrim