WHAT IS PEACE?
"I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process."
~ Jane Addams
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.
~ Menachem Begin
Peace is freedom in tranquility.
~ Cicero
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
~ Charles Dickens (Bleak House)
Peace, it's wonderful
~ Father Divine (George Baker)
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.
~ Poul Hartling
"Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts ~ to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, “I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members.” At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go."
~ Noeleen Heyzer
"The mere absence of war is not peace."
~John F. Kennedy
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
~ Richard Lamm (b. 1935)
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
~ A.J. Muste
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."
~ Oscar Romero
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
~ Maria Schell
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~ Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
~ Paul Valery
Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.
~ Joan Walsh
Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make ust he gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
~ E.B. White
Peace is always beautiful
~ Walt Whitman
*Peace is our gift to each other.
~ Elie Wiesel
