Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

Naomi Wolf

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War is the business of barbarians.

Oscar Arias

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

Oscar Arias

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Oriana Fallaci

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oliver Tambo

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Olive Schreiner

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

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.

Joni Mitchell

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

Henry Hazlitt

There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew up a Social Contract to form the state. But nobody has been able to find an actual record of it. Practically all the governments whose origins are historically established were the result of conquest-of one tribe by another, one city by another, one people by another. Of course there have been constitutional conventions, but they merely changed the working rules of governments already in being.

Henry David Thoreau

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Henry David Thoreau

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Mahatma Gandhi

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Malcolm X

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Malcolm X

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Malcolm X

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Malcolm X

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

The English peace is the peace of the grave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Mahatma Gandhi

Without prayer there is no inward peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.