Peace Quotes - Page 43

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.

I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe.

If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

What joy is ours that the Lord not only forgives our sins ,but allows the soul to know Him, so soon as she humbles herself. The poorest wretch can humble himself and know God in the Holy Spirit. There is no need of money or posessions in order to know God, only humility. The Lord gives Himself freely, for His mercy's sake alone. I did not know this before but now every day and every hour every minute, I see clearly the mercy of God. The Lord gives peace even in sleep, but without God there is no peace in the soul.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.