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.

John Quincy Adams

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

John Owen

If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

Theodore C. Sorensen

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

Thales

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

Terry Pratchett

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Margaret Mead

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

Margaret Halsey

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

Kin Hubbard

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Kin Hubbard

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Michael Parenti

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

Michael Howard

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

Max Lucado

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

May Sarton

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

Matthew Henry

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Matthew Henry

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

Maya Angelou

Effective action is always unjust.

Maya Angelou

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

Maya Angelou

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Maya Angelou

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Matthew Arnold

Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

Matthew Arnold

All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

Max Born

The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.

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.

James K. Polk

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.