Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Franti

Power to the peaceful!

Michael Franti

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Melody Beattie

This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.

Melody Beattie

Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

Michel Gondry

The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.

Mark Ruffalo

We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All we need is for you to join the rest of the world to bring about a cleaner, more stable, and peaceful future.

Ted Nugent

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

Theodore Roosevelt

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Theodore Roosevelt

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

Theodore Roosevelt

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

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!