Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Jean Anouilh

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Jean Baudrillard

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Murray Rothbard

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Krista Tippett

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

Kim Harrison

Inside Junior’s it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly,

Ida Tarbell

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Ida Tarbell

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

Gloria Steinem

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.

Geraldine Ferraro

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

Harry S Truman

He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.

Harry S Truman

Our goal must not be peace in our time but peace for all time.

Harry S Truman

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Harry S Truman

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Harry S Truman

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

J. K. Rowling

Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.

H. G. Wells

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H. G. Wells

If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. L. Mencken

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

H. L. Mencken

All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

Grace Hopper

Humans are allergic to change.

J. William Fulbright

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

George Herbert

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.