Quotes related to Psalm 34:14
And a government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing;
— Thomas Paine
Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.
— Ava DuVernay
Or even knows they need attendin to. But I never done it to benefit myself. Shot that thing. Like I kept peace for seven year sake of a man I never knowed nor seen his face and like I seen them fellers never had no business there and if I couldn't run em off I could anyway let em know they was one man would let on that he knowed what they was up to. But I knowed if they could build it they could build it back and I done it anyway. Ever man loves peace and a old man best of all.
— Cormac McCarthy
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
— Harry S. Truman
Peace starts within.
— Jane Goodall
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.
— Dag Hammarskjold
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
— Oscar Wilde
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
— Thomas a Kempis
become good. It would become beautiful. It would make us happy, and not with the future happiness of political promising. It would make us happy as soon as we began to do it.
— Wendell Berry
We are old; you cannot understand that, that you will or can ever reach a time when you can bear so much and no more; that nothing else is worth the bearing; that you not only cannot, you will not; that nothing is worth anything but peace, peace, peace, even with bereavement and grief—nothing!
— William Faulkner
I'm warning you. I'm going to get waxy. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else--- Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.
— William Golding
We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
— George W. Bush