Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Saeb Erekat

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

It's a journey. Peace is something you do on a moment-by-moment basis.

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.

Saeb Erekat

This is a real setback for the peace process.

Janet Flanner

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

Euripides

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Ernest Thompson Seton

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

Ernest Bevin

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Muriel Rukeyser

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Moby

Let peace and beauty reign.

Frank Herbert

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Jean Anouilh

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Jean Baudrillard

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Murray Rothbard

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Krista Tippett

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

Kim Harrison

Inside Junior’s it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly,

Ida Tarbell

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Ida Tarbell

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

Gloria Steinem

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.

Geraldine Ferraro

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

Harry S Truman

He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.

Harry S Truman

Our goal must not be peace in our time but peace for all time.