Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernie Pyle

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Ernest Hemingway

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Ernest Hemingway

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Etty Hillesum

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

Etty Hillesum

A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.

Etty Hillesum

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Jiang Qing

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

Grover Cleveland

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Graham Chapman

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

Godfrey Reggio

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Golda Meir

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Holly Near

The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.

Hugo Black

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

Hugo Black

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

Hugh Prather

Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

Howard Zinn

Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

Howard Zinn

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Howard Zinn

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Howard Zinn

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Howard Zinn

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Hannah Arendt

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Hannah Arendt

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Hannah Arendt

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Hannah Arendt

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Hannah Arendt

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Guy de Maupassant

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

George Bernard Shaw

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

George Bernard Shaw

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.