Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hermann Hesse

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

Hermann Hesse

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Hermann Hesse

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

Henry Van Dyke

A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,— Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.

Henry Van Dyke

Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

Henry Van Dyke

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

Hiram Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiawatha

Every human longs for peace and love.

Herodotus

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Hideki Tojo

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

Heraclitus

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Helen Thomas

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

John Knowles

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

John Knowles

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

John Knowles

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On all the peaks lies peace.

Haruki Murakami

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Harlan Ellison

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

Gustav Stresemann

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Gustav Stresemann

Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

John Dryden

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

John Dryden

Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

John Locke

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Legend

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

John Lehman

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

John Lennon

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

John Lennon

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

John Lennon

Peace and love are eternal

John Lennon

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

John Lennon

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.