Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neville Chamberlain

Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting for it, orwhether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete--however, one thing is certain: he missed the bus.

Nhat Hanh

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

Nhat Hanh

By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.

Nhat Hanh

No thought about the past or future can pull you away from your present peace and joy. The universe exists in this present moment. No desire can pull you away from this present peace, not even the desire to become a Buddha or the desire to save all beings. Know that to become a Buddha and to save all beings can only be realized on the foundation of the pure peace of the present moment.

Noam Chomsky

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Noam Chomsky

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Judith Guest

Make peace with what is.

Patti Smith

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

Ovid

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Masanobu Fukuoka

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Marya Mannes

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Martha Gellhorn

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Marshall McLuhan

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Mark Hatfield

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

Maria Schell

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Callas

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Murray Rothbard

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Krista Tippett

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

Mark Twain

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

Mark Twain

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Marquis de Sade

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Marquis de Sade

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

Marquis de Sade

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Marquis de Sade

What is more immoral than war?

Marion Barry

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Nikki Giovanni

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

Marvin Gaye

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Natan Sharansky

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.