Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Kuhn

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Hermann Hesse

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

Hermann Hesse

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Hermann Hesse

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

Henry Van Dyke

A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,— Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.

Henry Van Dyke

Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

Henry Van Dyke

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

Hiram Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiawatha

Every human longs for peace and love.

Herodotus

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Hideki Tojo

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

Heraclitus

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Helen Thomas

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Judith Orloff

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

Kathe Kollwitz

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

Kathe Kollwitz

One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved… The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle… Without struggle there is no life.

Karen Nussbaum

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Joseph Conrad

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Joseph Conrad

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Cook

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

Leonard Cohen

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

Langston Hughes

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Madame de Stael

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Haruki Murakami

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Harlan Ellison

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

Gustav Stresemann

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Gustav Stresemann

Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

John Dryden

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

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.