Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Order is heaven's first law. Order is earth's first law, too.

Brian Tracy

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Brenda Ueland

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

Brad Pitt

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Juvenal

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

Juvenal

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Kenneth Branagh

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

Elliott Abrams

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

Benjamin Disraeli

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl von Clausewitz

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Carl Sandburg

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Cardinal Richelieu

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

C. S. Lewis

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

Calvin Coolidge

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Bryant H. McGill

When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body.

Bryant H. McGill

Peace for the whole world begins with a smile in your own heart.

Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

Cesar Chavez

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

Cesar Chavez

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

Cesar Chavez

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

Cesar Chavez

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Cesar Chavez

You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it.

Cesar Chavez

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.