Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiang Qing

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

Grover Cleveland

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Graham Chapman

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

Godfrey Reggio

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Golda Meir

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Holly Near

The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.

Hugo Black

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

Hugo Black

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

Hugh Prather

Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

Howard Zinn

Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

Howard Zinn

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Howard Zinn

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Howard Zinn

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Howard Zinn

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Hannah Arendt

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Hannah Arendt

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Hannah Arendt

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Hannah Arendt

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Hannah Arendt

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Guy de Maupassant

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

George Bernard Shaw

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

George Bernard Shaw

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

George Bernard Shaw

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Erich Fromm

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Gerry Adams

Everyone who wants the peace process to work will welcome this significant development,

Everyone with a stake in peace must do their part.

The talks have just started. They are about peace in the Congo.

Jeremy Corbyn

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

The story is about spreading peace in the world.