Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Berrigan

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

Clint Eastwood

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

E. B. White

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

Douglas Horton

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

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.

Alice Walker

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Alice Munro

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

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.