Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Kucinich

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

Dennis Kucinich

Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

Deepak Chopra

Forgiveness is a feeling.

Edgar Cayce

Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

Chester W. Nimitz

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Cheryl James

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Chen Shui-bian

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

Charlize Theron

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Charles Horton Cooley

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Bill McKibben

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

Bob Marley

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

Bob Marley

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right.

Charlie Sheen

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Charles Lindbergh

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

Charles Lindbergh

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

Ed Asner

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

John Lubbock

When we have done our best, we should wait the results in peace

Bertolt Brecht

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Benjamin Jowett

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Benjamin Jowett

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Spock

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Bertrand Russell

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bernard Baruch

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

Noah Hawley

I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch 'Downton Abbey' and 'Breaking Bad' or whatever, and they want the things that they watch to be better so that they can feel better about themselves for watching it.