Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grete Waitz

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Gladys Taber

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

Gerry Adams

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Herbie Hancock

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

Herman Melville

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

Henry David Thoreau

Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.

H. L. Mencken

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

H. L. Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Jessica Lange

...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.

Jean Vanier

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Grover Cleveland

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Graham Chapman

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

Godfrey Reggio

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

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.

J. William Fulbright

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

Irene Khan

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

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.'

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Francis Quarles

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Homer

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Homer

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

Gloria Steinem

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.