Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Goldman

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

John Mellencamp

Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

John McCain

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Benjamin Disraeli

At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists

Ayn Rand

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Bertrand Russell

The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

Bertrand Russell

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Benjamin Banneker

Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.

Benito Mussolini

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

Benjamin Disraeli

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

Benjamin Disraeli

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Anna Jameson

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Elbert Hubbard

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Eileen Caddy

When a cupboard is full to overflowing and the doors are opened up, that which is within comes tumbling out and nothing can stop it. When floodgates are opened, the water rushes forth with tremendous power and force, carrying all before it. So with the

Mahmoud Abbas

destructive policy toward the truce and the peace process.

Mahmoud Abbas

a person who has got the will to work for peace.

John Cullen

People come here for peace and quiet, ... They come to be refreshed or to take stock of their lives.

There was a dead-end street when I got married. It was quiet, peaceful and there were no factories.

Probably not 'War and Peace,' but probably a lot of sports clips,

Jacques Chirac

Disarmament should be done in a peaceful way,