Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kennedy

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

John F. Kennedy

It takes two to make peace.

Linus Pauling

We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.

Linda Howard

Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.

Linda Chavez

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

Leo Tolstoy

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Leo Tolstoy

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Leo Tolstoy

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered....

Leo Tolstoy

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

Leo Tolstoy

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Leo Tolstoy

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Leo Tolstoy

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Leo Tolstoy

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

Leo Tolstoy

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Leo Tolstoy

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Leo Tolstoy

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Lewis Carroll

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Lewis Carroll

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

John Dryden

Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

John Locke

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Legend

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

John Lehman

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

John Lennon

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

John Lennon

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

John Lennon

Peace and love are eternal

John Lennon

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

John Lennon

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon

Imagine all the people living life in peace...

Jimmy Buffett

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

Emmet Fox

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.