Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

We want this tree to be a sign of peace and reconciliation.

Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.

We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Adolf Hitler

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

Abraham Lincoln

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

Ann Brashares

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

Andrea Dworkin

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

Andrea Dworkin

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

Katie Hoff

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.

John C. Reilly

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

Anna Lindh

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

Anwar Sadat

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Hiawatha

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Hesham Qandil

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Adam Smith

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Adam Levine

If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.

Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

Abraham Lincoln

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.