Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robby Krieger

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

Elliott Abrams

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

Jane Addams

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

James Wolfe

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

James Wolcott

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

James Wolcott

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

James Wolcott

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Richard G. Scott

Yes, pain, disappointment, frustration, and anguish can be temporary scenes played out on the stage of life. Behind them can be a background of peace and the positive assurance that a loving Father will keep His promises.

Booker T. Washington

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

Bob Dylan

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

Bob Dylan

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Barry Goldwater

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

Barry Goldwater

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

Barry Goldwater

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Aristide Briand

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Anwar Sadat

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Edward Young

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Edmund Burke

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Elie Wiesel

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

Elie Wiesel

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Elie Wiesel

Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

Ed Asner

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

David Hume

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Benazir Bhutto

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.