Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Aberjhani

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

Wole Soyinka

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

Ehud Barak

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

Jane Addams

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

James Wolfe

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

James Wolcott

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

James Wolcott

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

James Wolcott

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

New projects could be put on hold, especially now with the peace process under pressure.

Helen Keller

I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace.

I have never disputed the will for peace of the conservatives in this country,

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.

Robin Green

I feel the people have spoken. I?m at peace with their decision.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl von Clausewitz

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Carl Sandburg

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Cardinal Richelieu

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

C. S. Lewis

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

Calvin Coolidge

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Bryant H. McGill

When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body.

Bryant H. McGill

Peace for the whole world begins with a smile in your own heart.

Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

Cesar Chavez

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

Cesar Chavez

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.