Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aberjhani

Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace

Aberjhani

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

A. J. P. Taylor

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

A. J. Muste

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

A. J. Muste

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

A. J. Muste

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

A. S. Byatt

…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.

Abbie Hoffman

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

A. E. Housman

We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

Aeschylus

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Adrienne Rich

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Agatha Christie

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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.

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.

Aberjhani

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

Cyril Connolly

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

Dan Millman

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Dan Millman

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

Dan Millman

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

Dan Millman

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Colman McCarthy

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Colman McCarthy

The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.

Colman McCarthy

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

Colin Powell

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Kofi Annan

We should stop the firing. We should stop the shooting to give peace a chance,