Peace Quotes - Page 77

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Seek and find the freedom of the spirit, for where there is true freedom, there is peace, and where there is peace, there is love,and it is love that unlocks all doors.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.

I have learned from my own pain is that God's plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain - this is the bottom line.

In America, we believe in peace through strength, and that's what we will have.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.