Peace Quotes - Page 80

Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

Peace is a conscious choice.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Success: The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other.

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

I prefer periods of peace and love.

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.