Will Durant Quotes

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Peace

• We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Fight

• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Peace
  • Meaning
  • Socialism

• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Own
  • Reward

• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Beautiful
  • Peace
  • Poetry

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Wife

• To secure peace is to prepare for war.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Prepare

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Real
  • Free

• Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Peace
  • Practice
  • Moment

• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Long
  • Peace
  • Moments

• The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

  

  Kai Bird
  • Society
  • Reality
  • Peace

• There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Pretty
  • Law
  • Peace

• The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Please be at peace father,I'm at peace with you,bitterness isn't worth clinging to,after all the anguish we've all been through.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Father
  • Peace

• The world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a major role to play in global affairs. The pope is more than a spiritual leader. For the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he is an inspiration of holiness and goodness and, above all, the faithful proclamation of the Gospel.

  

  Chris Smith
  • World
  • Father
  • Peace

• Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Death
  • End

• Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Trust
  • Deep
  • Emotional

• I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Europe
  • Affair
  • Uniforms

• Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

  

  Will Durant
  • Peace
  • Equilibrium
  • Acknowledged