Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Nelson Mandela

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Nelson Mandela

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

Nelson Mandela

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Omar N. Bradley

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

Oprah Winfrey

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Let passion drive your profession.

Oprah Winfrey

Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

Olivier Martinez

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

Margaret Atwood

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more laws, the less justice.

Kiefer Sutherland

I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

Kid Rock

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

Margaret Thatcher

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

Margaret Cho

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

Mark Twain

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

Mark Twain

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Paul Robeson

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Paul Fleischman

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

Leon Trotsky

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Lajos Kossuth

I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

P. J. O'Rourke

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.

Paul Brunton

While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.

Paul Brunton

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Paul Brunton

Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it. One is aware also of the suffering which exists around him or her and the world at large.