Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Nhat Hanh

The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

Nhat Hanh

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

Nhat Hanh

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Nhat Hanh

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Nhat Hanh

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

Nhat Hanh

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

Nhat Hanh

A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

Nhat Hanh

My actions are my only true belongings.

Nhat Hanh

By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.

Nhat Hanh

No thought about the past or future can pull you away from your present peace and joy. The universe exists in this present moment. No desire can pull you away from this present peace, not even the desire to become a Buddha or the desire to save all beings. Know that to become a Buddha and to save all beings can only be realized on the foundation of the pure peace of the present moment.

Neneh Cherry

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

Noam Chomsky

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Noam Chomsky

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Noam Chomsky

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

John Greenleaf Whittier

Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find.

Patti Smith

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Marquis de Sade

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Marquis de Sade

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

Marquis de Sade

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Marquis de Sade

What is more immoral than war?

Marion Barry

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Nikki Giovanni

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

Marvin Gaye

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Natan Sharansky

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

Natan Sharansky

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

Natan Sharansky

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.

Oscar Wilde

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

Oscar Wilde

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

Madonna Ciccone

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.