Peace Quotes - Page 51

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal and sacrilegious; where power is no longer equated with the blade, but with the holy chalice: the ancient symbol of the power to give, nurture, enhance life. And I not only pray, but actively work, for the day when it will be so.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

War is the business of barbarians.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.