Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

Rajneesh

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

Smedley Butler

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Smedley Butler

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Smedley Butler

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Smedley Butler

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Michael Moorcock

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

John Quincy Adams

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

John Quincy Adams

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

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.

John Milton

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

John Milton

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

Norman Cousins

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Norman Cousins

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

Norman Cousins

Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

Norman Cousins

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Mitch Albom

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

John Templeton

We often see people every day searching in the wrong places for the things they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find peace and happiness in drugs, alcohol, and sensual excitement. And it doesn't work. If we desire peace, the first place to look is within ourselves. Peace isn't an external condition as much as an internal context.

John Ruskin

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

Ted Nugent

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

Theodore Roosevelt

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Theodore Roosevelt

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

Theodore Roosevelt

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Theodore Roosevelt

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

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.