Quotes about Peace
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
— Abraham Lincoln
From this day forward, let no human make war upon any other human. Let no Terran agency conspire against this new beginning. And let no man consort with alien powers. And to all the enemies of humanity, seek not to bar our way, for we shall win through, no matter the cost!
— Abraham Lincoln
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.
— Abraham Lincoln
With Malice Towards None
— Abraham Lincoln
Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
— Alain de Botton
We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.
— Alain de Botton
Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.
— Alain de Botton
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
— Desmond Tutu
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
— Desmond Tutu
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
— Desmond Tutu
I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
— Desmond Tutu