• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. […] We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa of Calcutta [LoC 710] (1910-1997) Albanian-born Indian Catholic nun, saint, missionary, humanitarian, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, Nobel Prize for Peace laureate, 1979

• If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa of Calcutta [LoC 710] (1910-1997) Albanian-born Indian Catholic nun, saint, missionary, humanitarian, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, Nobel Prize for Peace laureate, 1979, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart. Lao Tzu [LoC 610] (604-531 BC) Chinese sage, philosopher, founder of Daoism, author of Tao Te Ching [The Book of the Way], verse unknown, 800-200 BC

• Peace is always in God, because God is peace. Peace cannot be destroyed, but strife will be.
  Nicholas of Flüe [Brother Klaus] (1417-1487) Swiss patron saint, mystic, hermit, ascetic, famous statement in his letter of thanks
  to the Council of the City of Bern, 1482

• World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence. Peace is the manifestation of human compassion.
  H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso [LoC 570] (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1989, cited as in quote 38: 100 Dalai Lama Quotes That
  Will Change Your Life, presented by the website addicted2success, founder Joel Brown, 6. November 2015

• [T]he oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is
  a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am ta-
  king away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppres-
  sed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
  Nelson Mandela [Influence LoC 505] (1918-2013) leading South African anti-apartheid activist, prisoner for 27 years during apart-
  heid, first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Little, Brown and Company, London, 1994, Back Bay Books, 2. June 2008

• Peace is not just an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, and a disposition for benevolence, confidence, (courage) and justice. Baruch Spinoza [LoC 480] (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher, A. H. Gosset, translator, Tractatus Theologi-
  co-Politicus, 1677, chapter 5 "Of the Best State of a Dominion", 1883

By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and, arguably, the universe, Spinoza came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy.

• There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, martyr of the Nazi regime, Address in Fano, Denmark, August 1934

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• One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, cited in: The North Carolin Council of Churches Strength in Unity, Peace through Justice

• By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively – a never-ending process. Johan Galtung (1930-2024) Norwegian sociologist, politi-
  cal scientist, mathematician, principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies, founder of Peace Research Institute Oslo, originator of the Journal of Peace Research, cited in: Center for Building a Culture of Empathy

• It is not all of life to live,
  nor yet all of death to die.
  For life and death are one,
  and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.
  Edgar Cayce [Sleeping Prophet] Association for Research and Enlightenment (1877-1945) US American trance medium, healer, visionary, Part 2: The Best Edgar Cayce Quotes, presented by miraclesandinspiration.com

• Universal Peace, assuming it to be in the fullest sense realizable, might not re-
  quire eons for its accomplishment, however probable this may appear, judging from
  the imperceptibly slow growth of all great reformatory ideas of the past. [...] Our ac-
  cepted estimates of the duration of natural metamorphoses, or changes in general, have been thrown in doubt of
  late. The very foundations of science have been shaken.
  A state of human life vaguely defined by the term "Universal Peace," while a result of cumulative effort through cen-
  turies past, might come into existence quickly, not unlike a crystal suddenly forms in a solution which has been
  slowly prepared. […] There are abundant signs of this progress everywhere. The race enmities and prejudices are
  decidedly waning.
  We begin to think cosmically. Our sympathetic feelers reach out into the dim distance. The bacteria of the "Welt-
  schmerz," are upon us. Nikola Tesla [LoC 460] (1856-1943) Serbian US American physicist, mechanical and electrical engi-
  neer, inventor The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for Furthering Peace, presented by the journal Electrical World and Engineer, S. 21-24, 7. January 1905

• Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing
  with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of those fee-
  lings and needs, people lose their desires to attack back because they see the human ignorance leading to those
  attacks. Instead, their goal becomes providing the empathic connection and education that will enable them to trans-
  cend their violence and engage in cooperative relationships.
  Marshall B. Rosenberg (1934-2015) US American psychologist, psychotherapist, developer of Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg's NVC Quotes, PDF, #517, PuddleDancer Press, 2011

• Peace assuredly would pay even larger dividends, but to the wrong people. It is not at all clear how you could make a billion dollars by being peaceable. And so we don't consider or study the means of peace, or make them available to our leaders. We speak well of peace, we say we want it, we have paid the lives of innumerable other people and un-
  accountable wealth supposedly to get it, but we seem not to mind, we seem not to notice, that all we have got for so much loss, for so long, is more war. Wendell Berry (*1934) US American academic, cultural and economic critic, farmer, man
  of letters, cited in interview: Wendell Berry, Burkean, presented by the US American publication The American Conservative,
  Gracy Olmstead, associated editor, 17. February 2015

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way. A. J. Muste (1885-1967) Dutch-born American clergyman, pacifist, social activist involved in US labor and civil rights movements [also attributed to Mahatma Gandhi], presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, 16. November 1967

• If women around the world in the twenty-first century would get their act together they could, partnered with men of
  like mind, shift the direction of world history to create a future without war.
  Judith L. Hand, US American evolutionary biologist, animal behaviorist (ethologist), novelist, pioneer in the emerging field of peace ethology, Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace, Questpath Publishing, 1. September 2003

• Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it's also about the presence of justice. [...] A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness. Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity. It is the act of interrup-
  ting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a
  third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a re-
  volution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.
  Shane Claiborne (*1975) US American Christian activist, leading figure in the New Monasticism movement, author, Common Prayer. A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, Zondervan, 16. November 2010

• If you want peace, prepare for war. [Peace through strength]
  • Si vis pacem, para bellum

• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
  Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) US American guitarist, singer-songwriter, cited in: Brainyquote

• A people free to choose will always choose peace.
  ⚡ Ronald Reagan [Political influence LoC 502] (1911-2004) 40th Republican US president (1981-1989), frontman of neoconser-
  vative corporate trickle-down economics, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• We are here today to raise the flag of victory over the capital of our greatest adver-
  sary. […] we must remember that […] we are raising it in the name of the people of
  the United States, who are looking forward to a better world, a peaceful world, a world in which all the people will have an opportunity to enjoy the good things of life, and not just a few at the top. Let us not forget that we are fighting for peace, and for the welfare of mankind. We are not fighting for conquest. We want peace and prosperity for the world as a whole. We want to see the time come when we can do the things in peace that we have been able to do in war. If we can put this tremendous machine of ours, which has made this victory possible, to work for peace we can look forward to the greatest age in the history of mankind. That is what we propose to do.
  ⚡ Harry S. Truman [Intention LoC 495] (1884-1972) 33rd US president during World War II, 33rd degree Freemason, war criminial, Potsdam conference, 20. July 1945

• Well, let's put it this way, money trumps peace sometimes. (Calibrated at LoC 365.) ⚡ George W. Bush [Work LoC 460/450] (*1943) 43rd US American president (2000-2009), convicted war criminal, November 2011, press conference, 14. February 2007 and presidential address, 22. August 2007, cited in: D. Hawkins, Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, chapter 1, S. 40, 2008