Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

Desmond Tutu

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

D. H. Lawrence

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

D. H. Lawrence

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Clarence Darrow

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

Clarence Darrow

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

Dan Brown

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

Curtis LeMay

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

Curtis Jackson

Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

Coretta Scott King

...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.

Coretta Scott King

How many men must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society? How long will it take?

Confucius

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

Daniel Tammet

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

Ambrose Bierce

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Ambrose Bierce

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Alice Paul

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Walker

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Alice Walker

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

Alice Walker

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Alice Walker

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Alice Walker

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Alice Walker

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Alice Munro

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

Albert Schweitzer

In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.

Albert Camus

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Albert Camus

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.