Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry S Truman

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Harry S Truman

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Harry S Truman

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

J. K. Rowling

Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.

H. G. Wells

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H. G. Wells

If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. L. Mencken

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

H. L. Mencken

All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

Grace Hopper

Humans are allergic to change.

J. William Fulbright

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

George Herbert

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francis Quarles

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Homer

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Homer

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

Greg Schiano

I am very much at peace with where we started, where we are now and where we are going.

Tom DeLay

I am proud of the past. I am at peace with the present.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

Howard Thurman

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Honore de Balzac

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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.'

Joseph Stalin

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.