Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Maya Angelou

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Maria Montessori

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Paddy Chayefsky

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

Pablo Neruda

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Paulo Freire

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

John T. Flynn

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

Ricardo Montalban

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Julius Caesar

Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this...that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over.

Otto Weininger

Everything evil is revenge.

Kanye West

Success is the best revenge.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

Ellen Hopkins

revenge is living well with out you.

Ellen Hopkins

The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

Elizabeth Fry

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Viktor E. Frankl

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

Viktor E. Frankl

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor E. Frankl

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Vanna Bonta

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

Susan Wiggs

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

Sophocles

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

Stephen King

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear