Peace Quotes - Page 106

Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

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

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

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

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

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

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.

We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.

We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.