Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Denise Levertov

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

Dennis Kucinich

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

Dennis Kucinich

Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

Deepak Chopra

Forgiveness is a feeling.

Edgar Cayce

Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

Bertolt Brecht

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Benjamin Jowett

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Benjamin Jowett

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Spock

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Bertrand Russell

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bernard Baruch

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Agnes Repplier

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

Agnes Repplier

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Charlotte Bronte

The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

Charlie Chaplin

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charles Sumner

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

Cheryl James

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Chen Shui-bian

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

Charlize Theron

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Charles Horton Cooley

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Bill McKibben

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

Bob Marley

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

Bob Marley

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right.

Bill Watterson

How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models.

John Lubbock

When we have done our best, we should wait the results in peace

Edgar Lee Masters

Work for your own soul's sake.