Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Quarles

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Homer

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Homer

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

Greg Schiano

I am very much at peace with where we started, where we are now and where we are going.

Tom DeLay

I am proud of the past. I am at peace with the present.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

Howard Thurman

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Honore de Balzac

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Hassan Rouhani

If you want peace and well-being to be in place in the Middle East and you want terrorism to be uprooted, then there's no path other than the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, you saw that in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen that the power that was able to help the people of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen in the face of terrorist groups was the Islamic Republic of Iran.

James Brown

This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

James Brown

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

Jackie DeShannon

Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.

Jackie Chan

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

J. William Fulbright

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

Irene Khan

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

Immanuel Kant

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Mikhail Saakashvili

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Margaret Walker

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Joni Mitchell

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Jimmy Carter

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

Jimmy Carter

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

Jimmy Carter

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

John Cage

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

James Stephens

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

James Montgomery

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

James Madison

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace

Norman Vincent Peale

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.