Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Costello

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

What we need is a generation of peace.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Hillary Clinton

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

Hillary Clinton

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

Herbert Read

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

Herbert Hoover

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Esther Hicks

The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you've discovered - and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.

Ernie Pyle

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Ernest Hemingway

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Ernest Hemingway

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Etty Hillesum

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

Etty Hillesum

A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.

Etty Hillesum

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Jiang Qing

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

Grover Cleveland

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Graham Chapman

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

Godfrey Reggio

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Golda Meir

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Holly Near

The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.

Hugo Black

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

Hugo Black

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

Hugh Prather

Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

Howard Zinn

Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

Howard Zinn

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Howard Zinn

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Howard Zinn

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.