Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

Bob Dylan

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Blaise Pascal

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Blaise Pascal

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Charles Peguy

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Denis Diderot

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Dean Rusk

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Barry Goldwater

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

Barry Goldwater

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

Barry Goldwater

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Aristide Briand

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Anwar Sadat

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Edward Young

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Edmund Burke

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Elie Wiesel

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

Elie Wiesel

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Elie Wiesel

Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Queen Latifah

I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Elbert Hubbard

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors