Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.

Paul Theroux

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

John Pilger

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.

Martin Luther

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

Nicole Kidman

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

Nick Lowe

What's so funny about peace, love and understanding

Nancy Astor

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

Ovid

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Masanobu Fukuoka

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Marya Mannes

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Martha Gellhorn

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Marshall McLuhan

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Mark Hatfield

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

Maria Schell

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Callas

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Joseph Stalin

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

Joseph Stalin

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised....

Niccolo Machiavelli

Before all else, be armed.

Neville Chamberlain

Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting for it, orwhether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete--however, one thing is certain: he missed the bus.

Nhat Hanh

In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

Nhat Hanh

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Nhat Hanh

There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes.

Nhat Hanh

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Nhat Hanh

When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.

Nhat Hanh

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

Nhat Hanh

We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world.

Nhat Hanh

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

Nhat Hanh

What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps.

Nhat Hanh

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.