Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rigoberta Menchu

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Joseph Goebbels

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Joshua L. Liebman

After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.

Josh Billings

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

Karl Kraus

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Otto von Bismarck

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

Otto von Bismarck

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

It's important in our talks with Abbas to hear how women are represented in peace negotiations, how Palestine views the position of women and how resources are distributed.

Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.

Paul Theroux

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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.

Mother Teresa

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

Mother Teresa

All works of love are works of peace.

Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.

Monica Baldwin

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

Mohammed Morsi

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

Minoru Yamasaki

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

Pearl S. Buck

... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.

Kent Haruf

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My hours are peaceful centuries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Scilla Elworthy

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Scilla Elworthy

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

Natalie Portman

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Peace at home, peace in the world.

Swami Vivekananda

After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.