Peace Quotes - Page 96

Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.

He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state