Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

Pope Francis

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

Pope Francis

We are far from the so called 'end of history,' since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet been adequately articulated and realized.

Pope Francis

Peace is a daily commitment. It is a homemade peace.

Peter Mullan

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

Peter Abelard

O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.

Rachel Carson

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

R. A. Salvatore

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

Quentin Crisp

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Polybius

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.

Pope John XXIII

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

Moss Hart

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.

Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace.

Mother Teresa

A smile is the beginning of peace.

Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Robert Frost

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

Rita Mae Brown

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Richard E. Byrd

I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it!

Rene Descartes

Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.

Thornton Wilder

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

Thomas More

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

Thomas Paine

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

Thomas Paine

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Huxley

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

Thomas de Quincey

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

Robert McNamara

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

Saul Williams

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

Roseanne Barr

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Rod Serling

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

Rod Serling

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.