Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Eileen Caddy

When a cupboard is full to overflowing and the doors are opened up, that which is within comes tumbling out and nothing can stop it. When floodgates are opened, the water rushes forth with tremendous power and force, carrying all before it. So with the

Edward Abbey

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

Edward Abbey

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Aristotle

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Aristotle

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Aristotle

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Aristotle

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Ben Jonson

Peace is never more than one thought away.

Alexis de Tocqueville

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Hesham Qandil

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Ariel Sharon

The peace plan outlined in the president's speech is a reasonable, pragmatic and practicable one.

Bikram Choudhury

Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.

John C. Calhoun

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

Wole Soyinka

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!

Daniel Goleman

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Katie Hoff

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.

John C. Reilly

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.