Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Ludwig von Mises

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Ludwig von Mises

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Ludwig von Mises

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

Ludwig von Mises

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Ludwig von Mises

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Petrarch

An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Javier Solana

We have to provide a roadmap for the Abuja peace process.

Zoe Lister-Jones

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

Ehud Barak

point of equilibrium to provide us with a stable peace for generations to come.

Peter Thiel

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

I think I'm one of the people who brought about peace in Ireland.

We need to have peace in the country.

Menachem Begin

We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.

E. F. Schumacher

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

Hiawatha

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

is a trained diplomat. She's very even-tempered. She's doing what she can to get the peace process back on track.

Rand Paul

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

Alice Walker

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Alice Munro

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

Albert Schweitzer

In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.

Albert Camus

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Albert Camus

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

Albert Camus

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Albert Camus

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Annie Besant

Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

Annie Lennox

Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.