Peace Quotes - Page 109

If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.

The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no way to kill anyone with High Frontier - all that High Frontier can do is to keep others from killing us.

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.

I want to see peace dancing in the heart of every human being.

Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.