Famous Quotes & Sayings

In our opinion, the problem is not in the position of the Palestinian people, but in the occupation. We are for peace in the region, which may become possible only after the end of the occupation.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

If wars are expensive, peace can be even more expensive,

Reese Witherspoon

I have to turn down roles I really want to do because I can't travel. But that's okay, because you make peace with things in your mind.

Lee Smith

I kind of made my peace with it being gone.

If Mr. Sharon is in the government, we all know the peace process will be over,

Martti Ahtisaari

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.

Ted Kennedy

indicated that they really didn't have a plan to win the peace after winning the war.

Jessica Jackson

I like peace and quiet, and it would be completely lost.

Margaret Walker

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Joni Mitchell

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Khalil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

John Adams

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

The dividend of peace must not just be theoretical but also a tangible reward for people around the world.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Hazlitt

There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew up a Social Contract to form the state. But nobody has been able to find an actual record of it. Practically all the governments whose origins are historically established were the result of conquest-of one tribe by another, one city by another, one people by another. Of course there have been constitutional conventions, but they merely changed the working rules of governments already in being.

Henry David Thoreau

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Henry David Thoreau

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Mahatma Gandhi

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

The English peace is the peace of the grave.

The tricky problem in peace talks is always Jerusalem.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War is the business of barbarians.

Oscar Arias

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

Oscar Arias

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Oriana Fallaci

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oliver Tambo

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Olive Schreiner

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Norman Vincent Peale

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Norman Vincent Peale

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.