Peace Quotes - Page 119

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.

Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood... Crystal blue persuasion.

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

War makes rattling good history.

We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take the time to pray with Jesus, we too will be converted in mind and heart. It won�t work if we try to reason it out. The only way is through a change of heart, a coming into a way of being that is the way of Jesus.