Peace Quotes - Page 118

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us, then, try what love will do: for if men do once see that we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.