Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

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.

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.

Ariel Sharon

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

The Jerusalem

we don't want wars here; we want to live in peace.

Adolf Hitler

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Carl von Clausewitz

In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

Carl von Clausewitz

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Carl von Clausewitz

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Carl von Clausewitz

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Carl von Clausewitz

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Carl von Clausewitz

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Thomas Merton

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Saadi

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Thomas Watson

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Reggie McNeal

You were created on purpose for a purpose.