Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Caldwell

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

Tacitus

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

Tacitus

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

Tacitus

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus

They make a desert and call it peace.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Tacitus

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Rollo May

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Rumi

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Tom Peters

Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.

Tom Lehrer

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

Stanley Baldwin

War would end if the dead could return.

Silvia Cartwright

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

Sigmund Freud

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Sigmund Freud

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Sigmund Freud

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Shirley MacLaine

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

Serj Tankian

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Stevie Wonder

Love's in need of love today...don't delay...send yours in right away

Stevie Wonder

Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

Sun Tzu

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

Sun Tzu

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Rigoberta Menchu

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Ramsey Clark

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Ralph Bunche

To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.

Ralph Bunche

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Septima Poinsette Clark

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Michael Lerner

I seek peace, let me BE peace.

Sebastian Faulks

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

Seth Godin

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Todd Rundgren

The ultimate crime is not to care.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.