Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wangari Maathai

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

Wangari Maathai

Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

Kofi Annan

In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.

Kofi Annan

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

Kofi Annan

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

Kofi Annan

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

Kim Il-sung

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

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.

Thomas Aquinas

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Thomas Aquinas

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

Therese of Lisieux

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

Therese of Lisieux

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

Scott Lynch

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.

Scarlett Johansson

It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

Shinzo Abe

It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan, should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.

Lewis Mumford

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing...

Lee Myung-bak

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

Neil Sheehan

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.