Peace Quotes - Page 86

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world, and all men will live as brothers.

I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.