Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Adler

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Alfred Adler

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Alfred Adler

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Anatole France

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

Anatole France

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anne Frank

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Christopher Marlowe

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Andrew Carnegie

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

Amy Carmichael

If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Alvaro Uribe

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

Amy Grant

Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

Ambrose Bierce

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Ambrose Bierce

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Alice Paul

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Walker

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Alice Walker

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

Alice Walker

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Alice Walker

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Alice Walker

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Abraham Lincoln

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

Ann Brashares

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

Andrea Dworkin

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

Andrea Dworkin

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

Aesop

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Aesop

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Wins and all that don't give you peace of mind.