Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Dolan

If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path.

Michael Cunningham

You can't find peace by avoiding life.

Michael Cunningham

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Mark Twain

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

Mark Twain

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Marquis de Sade

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Marquis de Sade

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

Marquis de Sade

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Marquis de Sade

What is more immoral than war?

Marion Barry

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Nikki Giovanni

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

Marvin Gaye

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Patti Smith

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

Ovid

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Masanobu Fukuoka

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Marya Mannes

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Martha Gellhorn

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Marshall McLuhan

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Mark Hatfield

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

Maria Schell

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Callas

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Marianne Williamson

As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

Marianne Williamson

God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

Marianne Williamson

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

Marianne Williamson

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

Marianne Williamson

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it...

Marianne Williamson

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

Mario Lopez

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.

Chris Hedges

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.