Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard L. Evans

We have to trust the Lord God for so many things, and it is but one thing more to trust him in the issues of life and death, and to accept the fact that his plans and promises and purposes transcend the bounds of this world and of this life. With such faith the years are kind, and peace and reconciliation do come to those who have laid to rest their loved ones - who, even in death, are not far removed from us, and of whom our Father in heaven will be mindful until we meet again even as we are mindful of our own children.

Vera Brittain

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

William Cowper

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

W. Eugene Smith

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Vladimir Putin

Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built on regional and global nonaligned bases. Only then can we ensure peace and tranquility in the world.

William Greider

If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.

William Glasser

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

William Graham Sumner

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject...

William Godwin

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

Waylon Jennings

I might be an endangered species.

Walter Lippmann

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Walter Lippmann

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

Voltaire

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

Voltaire

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Voltaire

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

William Tecumseh Sherman

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

Winston Churchill

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Winston Churchill

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Samuel Johnson

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

William Hazlitt

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

Yehuda Berg

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred...

John Tinker

Peace is the right approach. War is the wrong approach.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Javier Solana

Peace is more than the end of violence. Peace is more than just a cease-fire,

Peace is being jeopardized in the short run.

Ringo Starr

Peace and love! Peace and love! Peace and love!

Amar'e Stoudemire

I prefer the path of peace over war.