Peace Quotes - Page 19

• [War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Concern, Great Power

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• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Communication, Ubuntu

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, Political, Democracy

  Speech to Congress, 2 Apr. 1917, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 195

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• This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mind, World, Helping

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• As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Oil, Gold, Purpose

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• This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Needs, World

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.509, Aum Publications

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• War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

  Sri Chinmoy

  War, Passion, Psychics

  "Songs of the Soul". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

  Thornton Wilder

  War, Thinking, Better Life

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Ubuntu, Government, People

  Interview with Dan Schneider, www.cosmoetica.com. March 19, 2009.

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• The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

  E. B. White

  Father, War, Years

  1954 The Second Tree from the Corner, 'The Second Tree from the Corner'.

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• Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

  Fred M. Vinson

  War, Men, Culture

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Children, War, Men

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• There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  Ida Tarbell

  Leadership, Truth, Women

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• I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

  Sadako Sasaki

  Life, Passion, Writing

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• How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Humanity, Easy, Release

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• Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  World, Spontaneous, Deep Within

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• The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

  Ida Tarbell

  War, Mean, Gun

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• We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Wise, Powerful

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Distance, Ubuntu

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• All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Karma, People

  "The Law of Love and the Law of Violence". Treatise by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

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• What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

  Alice Walker

  Ubuntu, Political, Understanding

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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• When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Truth, Yoga

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.196, Harmony

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• It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Growth, Way

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