Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Tubman

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Indira Gandhi

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

Indira Gandhi

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

Indira Gandhi

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

Jack Kemp

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

It is a significant setback in terms of the whole process of making peace having to start again.

is a trained diplomat. She's very even-tempered. She's doing what she can to get the peace process back on track.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

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.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you wish for peace, understand war.

C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Cecelia Ahern

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Benjamin Rush

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Javier Solana

We have to provide a roadmap for the Abuja peace process.

Chan Gailey

I think I have a peace about the future, ... I don't think I have a peace. I do have a peace.

Wins and all that don't give you peace of mind.

H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Jean Anouilh

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Jean Baudrillard

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Janet Flanner

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

Euripides

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Ernest Thompson Seton

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

Ernest Bevin

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Chris Hedges

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

Germaine Greer

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Havelock Ellis

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Hayao Miyazaki

What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.