Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.

H. L. Mencken

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

H. L. Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Jessica Lange

...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.

Jean Vanier

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Jesse Jackson

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Jean Ingelow

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

Jackson Browne

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

Jackson Browne

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

George Harrison

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

George Harrison

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

Jeannette Rankin

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Jeannette Rankin

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Jeannette Rankin

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

Jeannette Rankin

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jennifer James

Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds like settling, letting the fire go out. Actually, peace of mind allows you to go more deeply into the world and consequently to experience more excitement and ecstasy. The fire burns brighter, fueled by awareness instead of anxiety.

Jennifer James

There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Georges Clemenceau

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Georges Clemenceau

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

George Whitefield

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

George Will

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

George Will

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Jim Garrison

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Jerry Pournelle

Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.

Jerry Pournelle

Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.