Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hu Jintao

do our utmost with all sincerity to strive for the prospect of a peaceful reunification of our country.

Saeb Erekat

The way to peace and stability is through an end to occupation,

Georg Buchner

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Paul Mooney

A lot of soldiers flashed each other peace signs ... but it wasn't the most popular outlook.

They outnumbered us. We had a peaceful vigil off campus. The second day, there were even more police.

Saeb Erekat

This is a real setback for the peace process.

This (peace bid) will be a turning point and will give us a signal whether the problem is going to get better or worse.

Ilham Aliyev

There will be clashes or peaceful demonstrations, ... under very tense conditions.

It's a sad day for the peace process.

Germaine Greer

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Havelock Ellis

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Hayao Miyazaki

What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Grete Waitz

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Gladys Taber

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

Gerry Adams

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Herbie Hancock

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

Herman Melville

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

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.

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.