Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

Jimmy Carter

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

John Cage

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

James Stephens

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

James Montgomery

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

James Madison

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace

Norman Vincent Peale

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Norman Vincent Peale

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

Norman Vincent Peale

A peaceful mind generates power.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Hermann Hesse

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

Hermann Hesse

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Hermann Hesse

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

Henry Van Dyke

A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,— Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.

Henry Van Dyke

Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

Henry Van Dyke

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

Hiram Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiawatha

Every human longs for peace and love.

Herodotus

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Hideki Tojo

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

Heraclitus

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Helen Thomas

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

John Knowles

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

John Knowles

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

John Knowles

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On all the peaks lies peace.

Khalil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Naomi Wolf

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.