Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

It Is possible to live in peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Freya Stark

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

Freya Stark

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

Francois Hollande

It will be very important for us to continue to keep up the necessary pressure, the necessary vigilance, for there to be peace in Ukraine, our trust in the goodwill of President (Vladimir) Putin is limited. It is why we have to maintain our decision about sanctions.

Francois Hollande

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Maggie Kuhn

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Maggie Kuhn

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Madame de Stael

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Jimmy Carter

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

Jimmy Carter

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

Jimmy Carter

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

John Cage

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

James Stephens

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

James Montgomery

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

Edi Rama

Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples.

Eckhart Tolle

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

Hermann Hesse

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

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.

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.

Ariel Sharon

a better peace, a realistic peace, a different way.

Georg Buchner

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

This (peace bid) will be a turning point and will give us a signal whether the problem is going to get better or worse.

Aberjhani

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

Charles Caleb Colton

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Charles Caleb Colton

Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

Alanis Morissette

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Alan Watts

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.