Peace Quotes - Page 125

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

There never was a war that was not inward.

It's important in our talks with Abbas to hear how women are represented in peace negotiations, how Palestine views the position of women and how resources are distributed.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Morality is contraband in war.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.