Peace Quotes - Page 79

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

I am funny, but I'm not about funny... I'm about peace & justice.

War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?

Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

It Is possible to live in peace.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty surya namaskars in a row.