Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Florynce Kennedy

Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

Florynce Kennedy

Don't agonize, organize.

Florynce Kennedy

You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

Florynce Kennedy

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

Florence Nightingale

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Herbert Hoover

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Henry Miller

A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

Henry Miller

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Henry Miller

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.

Helen Keller

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Helen Keller

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Helen Keller

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Cat Stevens

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Cassandra Clare

His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.

Hassan Rouhani

If you want peace and well-being to be in place in the Middle East and you want terrorism to be uprooted, then there's no path other than the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, you saw that in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen that the power that was able to help the people of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen in the face of terrorist groups was the Islamic Republic of Iran.

James Brown

This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

James Brown

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

Jackie DeShannon

Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.

Jackie Chan

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

J. William Fulbright

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

Irene Khan

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

Immanuel Kant

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

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.