Quotes related to Matthew 5:9
I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.
— Will Smith
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
— Mother Teresa
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
— Franklin Pierce
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
— Audre Lorde
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.
— Gregory of Nyssa
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
— Mark Twain
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
— Helen Keller
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
— Pope John Paul II
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower