Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Wallis

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

John Buchan

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

John Boyle O'Reilly

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

we don't want wars here; we want to live in peace.

The tricky problem in peace talks is always Jerusalem.

Ray Davies

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

Ray Davies

I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

Thomas Jefferson

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace is our passion.

Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Thomas Jefferson

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Thomas Jefferson

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

Robert Holden

A Course In Miracles is a constant affirmation that you are created by an unconditional thought of love that appears to have lost itself in a world of fear. Freedom, joy and peace of mind are yours again, when you remember and re-connect to your unconditional self.

Taylor Caldwell

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

Tacitus

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

Tacitus

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

Tacitus

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus

They make a desert and call it peace.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Tacitus

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Rollo May

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Sophie Kerr

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

Stephenie Meyer

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

Thomas Pynchon

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

Thomas Hardy

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Thomas Kinkade

When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.