Peace Quotes - Page 126

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech population. The demonstrations against the base are usually organized by communists, Islamists, and "peaceful feminists" (which is fortunately not a numerous group).

One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

This country will not be a peaceful place for us to live if we do not make it to be a peaceful place with our fists.