Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

Jeannette Rankin

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Jeannette Rankin

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Jeannette Rankin

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

Jeannette Rankin

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

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.

Georges Clemenceau

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Georges Clemenceau

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

Jackson Browne

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

Jackson Browne

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

George Harrison

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

George Harrison

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Chris Hedges

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

Germaine Greer

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Havelock Ellis

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Mikhail Saakashvili

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Margaret Walker

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

John Adams

Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

John Adams

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Louise Hay

Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others.

Louise Hay

When you find Peace within, you create a Peaceful world around you.

The dividend of peace must not just be theoretical but also a tangible reward for people around the world.

Edi Rama

Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples.

Eckhart Tolle

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.