Peace Quotes - Page 135

Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together.

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Ed Koch will never "rest in peace." That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say "it's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax."

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object