Peace Quotes - Page 87

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or emotional pain. Now notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. Usually the result is increased energy and power and a sense of natural flow. When you're at one with yourself, the world feels peaceful, exciting, and magical.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Peace and love, peace and love!

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But with it come quiet thoughts and quickened memories. And what else shall a man do except become reconciled? What purpose does he serve by fighting what he cannot touch or by brooding upon what he cannot change?

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.