Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

Joni Mitchell

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Khalil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Naomi Wolf

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

Lois McMaster Bujold

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Livy

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

Livy

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Livy

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

Livy

Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Louis D. Brandeis

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Lord Byron

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Malcolm Forbes

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Mahatma Gandhi

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

Mahatma Gandhi

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.

Mahatma Gandhi

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it