Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesar Chavez

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

Cesar Chavez

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Cesar Chavez

You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it.

Cesar Chavez

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.

Cesar Chavez

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

Al Yankovic

It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

Charles Kettering

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

Charles A. Beard

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Barry Goldwater

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

Barry Goldwater

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

Barry Goldwater

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Aristide Briand

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Anwar Sadat

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Edward Young

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Edmund Burke

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Elie Wiesel

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

Elie Wiesel

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Elie Wiesel

Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

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,

Herbie Hancock

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

Georges Clemenceau

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

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.