Peace Quotes - Page 107

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

Living with this gratitude elevates you... You become a more joyful person. You become a kinder and more compassionate person. You become a calmer and more peaceful person. You become a person who lives in greater harmony with others.

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.