Peace Quotes - Page 37

• Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, Moving, New Day

  Ronald Reagan (1985). “The Geneva summit: a fresh start”

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• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

  Aesop

  Stress, Food, Athlete

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Men, Animal

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• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Wisdom, Military, War

  Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 10 Nov. 1948, in Collected Writings (1967) vol. 1, p. 588

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• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Emotions Feelings, Anxiety, Action

  "To My Daughters, With Love (My Neighbor's Son)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Struggle, Men

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• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Race

  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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• When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

  George Harrison

  Hippie, Waiting, Mind

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• You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Freedom, Humanity

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

  Douglas Horton

  Fear, Revenge, Anger

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• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Loss, Instruments

  Letter to John Sinclair, 1798.

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• Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

  John Lennon

  Love, Motivational, Thinking

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, War, Son

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Should Have, Busy, Saying And Doing

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• One must care about a world one will not see.

  Bertrand Russell

  Future, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Fidgeting, Violence

  Voice of America broadcast, November 11, 1951.

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• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Equality, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.16, A&C Black

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• Peace and love are eternal.

  John Lennon

  And Love, Peace And Love, Eternal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

  Robert Fulghum

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Healing

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• Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Christian, Trouble

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Violence, Defeat, Non Violence

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• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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• Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

  Anwar Sadat

  Land, History, Pieces

  Speech, Cairo, 8 Mar. 1978

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• You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Stress, Ubuntu, Hands

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• War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Fighting, Ubuntu

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