Famous Quotes & Sayings

We still want to resolve this peacefully. That's where we stand at this point.

William Shakespeare

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Kurt Vonnegut

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

William Shakespeare

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

William Shakespeare

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

Edgar Lee Masters

Work for your own soul's sake.

Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Elliott Abrams

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

Jane Addams

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

James Wolfe

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

James Wolcott

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

James Wolcott

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

James Wolcott

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Barbara Tuchman

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Arthur Balfour

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Ban Ki-moon

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Ban Ki-moon

On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

Baltasar Gracian

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

Arundhati Roy

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.