Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

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.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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.

Erica Jong

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.

We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.

Elvis Costello

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

What we need is a generation of peace.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Harriet Tubman

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

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.

Gladys Taber

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

Graham Chapman

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

Golda Meir

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

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.'

H. G. Wells

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

J. William Fulbright

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

George Herbert

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Greg Schiano

I am very much at peace with where we started, where we are now and where we are going.

Tom DeLay

I am proud of the past. I am at peace with the present.

Rand Paul

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

Ariel Sharon

The peace plan outlined in the president's speech is a reasonable, pragmatic and practicable one.