Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley MacLaine

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

Shaun White

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

Serj Tankian

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Stevie Wonder

Love's in need of love today...don't delay...send yours in right away

Stevie Wonder

Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

Sun Tzu

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

Sun Tzu

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

Robert Browning

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

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.

T. D. Jakes

If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.

T. S. Eliot

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

T. S. Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Sydney J. Harris

Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

Susan Sontag

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

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.