Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Franti

Power to the peaceful!

Michael Franti

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Melody Beattie

This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.

Melody Beattie

Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

Michel Gondry

The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.

Mark Ruffalo

We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All we need is for you to join the rest of the world to bring about a cleaner, more stable, and peaceful future.

Ted Nugent

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

Theodore Roosevelt

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Theodore Roosevelt

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

Theodore Roosevelt

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Malcolm X

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Malcolm X

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Malcolm X

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Malcolm X

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

The English peace is the peace of the grave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Mahatma Gandhi

Without prayer there is no inward peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

Mahatma Gandhi

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

John Adams

Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

John Adams

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Louise Hay

Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others.

Louise Hay

When you find Peace within, you create a Peaceful world around you.

James Madison

Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

James Madison

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Jim Morrison

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Emma Goldman

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.