Peace Quotes - Page 24

• That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

  Joan Baez

  Humanity, Nonviolent Communication, Protest

  "What would you do if…?". Interview, silouanthompson.net. March 16, 2011.

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• A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, War, Son

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

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• Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Liberty, Tranquility

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.66

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• The sinews of war are infinite money.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Money, War, Philosophical

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• From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

  Denis Diderot

  War, Tyrants, Steps

  "Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu". A translation and adaptation of "Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit" by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, 1745.

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Military

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• War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sweet, War

  Desiderius Erasmus (1962). “Handbook of the Militant Christian”

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• We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teamwork, Team Building, Unity

  To John Hancock, at the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Kindness, Integrity

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• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Clever, Love You

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Political

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Violence, Articles

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• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, War, Democracies Have

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

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• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Upset, World

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Veterans Day, Military, War

  Quoted in New Yorker, 8 Jan. 1966

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  War, World Destruction, Hype

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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• I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can. But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

  John Lennon

  Love, Song, Believe

  "John Lennon: The Last Interview (December 05, 1980)". Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 2010.

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• So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Children, Long

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• The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Forgiveness, Practice, Action

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.36, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Eye, Perspective, Suffering

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Lying, Romance

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• Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

  John Boyes

  Voice, Violence, Reason

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• All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

  Vera Brittain

  Hate, Order, Suffering

  "What Can We Do In Wartime?", September 9, 1939.

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• . . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

  Frederick Buechner

  Hands, Giving, Slipping

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