Peace Quotes - Page 53

I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

Make peace with your past - so it won't spoil the present!

It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed.

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and compulsory rules.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.

They make a desert and call it peace.

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only no matter how big its membership may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.

To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.