Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Carlin

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

Garth Brooks

When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Buechner

. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

George Eliot

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Seth Godin

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Todd Rundgren

The ultimate crime is not to care.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

Rajneesh

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

James Russell Lowell

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

James Fallows

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

Rajneesh

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

Smedley Butler

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Smedley Butler

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Smedley Butler

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Smedley Butler

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Snoop Dogg

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

Michael Moorcock

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

Sheryl Crow

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m so overwhelmed.” – Nick “Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely hanging on by our fingernails.” – Caleb

Nikita Khrushchev

The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

John Milton

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

John Milton

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

Norman Borlaug

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Norman Cousins

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Norman Cousins

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

Norman Cousins

Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

Norman Cousins

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.