Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Hollande

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Maggie Kuhn

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Maggie Kuhn

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War is the business of barbarians.

Oscar Arias

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

Oscar Arias

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Oriana Fallaci

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oliver Tambo

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Olive Schreiner

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Norman Vincent Peale

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Norman Vincent Peale

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

Norman Vincent Peale

A peaceful mind generates power.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

Hiram Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiawatha

Every human longs for peace and love.

Herodotus

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Hideki Tojo

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

Heraclitus

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Helen Thomas

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

John Knowles

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

John Knowles

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

John Knowles

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On all the peaks lies peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Jim Morrison

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Emma Goldman

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.