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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742 - 1799)

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon
English singer & songwriter (1940 - 1980)

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhower

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
French general & politician (1769 - 1821)

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
US Republican politician (1947 - )

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Aldous Huxley
English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus
(~375 AD)

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
German mystic & religious author (1380 - 1471)

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins
US editor & essayist (1912 - 1990)

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall
US general (1880 - 1959)

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
US general & Republican politician (1890 - 1969)

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

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