Peace Quotes - Page 102

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values of cooperation and sharing, of nonviolence and support.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

What is more immoral than war?

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstances—so far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

My beloved soul, having awakened at last into My Peace, you can return consciously and completely to your own Original Source. As this homecoming fills you with in expressible joy it pervades Allah Most High with profound delight as well (You will) experience the perfect union with Love that is My highest Paradise.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.