Peace Quotes - Page 65

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

The more laws, the less justice.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people. We're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.

Listening is more important than talking.

It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

The revolution will not be televised.