Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Theodore Roosevelt

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore C. Sorensen

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

Thales

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Margaret Mead

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

Margaret Halsey

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

Kin Hubbard

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Kin Hubbard

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Michael Parenti

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

If Mr. Sharon is in the government, we all know the peace process will be over,

Martti Ahtisaari

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.

Mikhail Saakashvili

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Margaret Walker

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

John T. Flynn

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

James K. Polk

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

James Russell Lowell

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

James Fallows

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

Lester B. Pearson

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

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.

The dividend of peace must not just be theoretical but also a tangible reward for people around the world.