Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Owen

If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

John Milton

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

John Milton

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

Norman Borlaug

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Norman Cousins

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Norman Cousins

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

Norman Cousins

Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

Norman Cousins

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Mitch Albom

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

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.

Edi Rama

Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples.

Eckhart Tolle

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

Eckhart Tolle

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

John F. Kennedy

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

John F. Kennedy

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

John F. Kennedy

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

John F. Kennedy

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

John F. Kennedy

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

John F. Kennedy

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John F. Kennedy

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.