Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Schroeder

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

Patricia Schroeder

You measure a government by how few people need help.

Oscar Wilde

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

Oscar Wilde

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

Madonna Ciccone

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

Michael Jackson

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

Michael Dolan

If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path.

Michael Cunningham

You can't find peace by avoiding life.

Michael Cunningham

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Cindy Sheehan

Senator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,

Ehud Barak

point of equilibrium to provide us with a stable peace for generations to come.

New projects could be put on hold, especially now with the peace process under pressure.

Helen Keller

I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

I have never disputed the will for peace of the conservatives in this country,

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.

Robin Green

I feel the people have spoken. I?m at peace with their decision.

Jim Garrison

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Jerry Pournelle

Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.

Hillary Clinton

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

George Bernard Shaw

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Erich Fromm

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

Graham Chapman

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

Hugo Black

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Immanuel Kant

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'