Peaceful Quotes - Page 20

• By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.

  Sharon Gannon

  Be Kind, Violence, Break

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Memories, Writing, Phones

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia. However, if possible, the use of force is something to avoid except in cases where genocide is threatened, like Bosnia or Libya or with regimes that threaten our security, like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, Mistake, Successful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• To me, love is the strongest and most amazing force in the world. It can bring people together, tear them apart, lift people up, or bring them down. But if it is true and pure, love can create a beautiful and peaceful world.

  Mateus Ward

  Beautiful, Love Is, People

  6 Copy quote

• Michael Jordan once said that the most peaceful moments of his life were on a basketball court, because that's the only place he knew exactly what to do. And to me the most peaceful moments in my ministry are in the pulpit because that's when I really know what I'm going to do.

  Max Lucado

  Basketball, Jordan, Ministry

  Source: www.preaching.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, People, Parent

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, Cutting, Police

  5 Copy quote

• Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Poison, Should

  5 Copy quote

• I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Energy, Nuclear, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.

  Khaled Hosseini

  War, People, West

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Philosophical, Pacifist

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When Cara [Delevingne] and Dane [DeHaan] arrived, I told their agent, "They need to know all this." I gave them the 600 pages. I said, "You have to learn everything. You're a cop. You need to know the names." I don't want him, when he meets an alien to go, "Whoa" like this. I want him to know if this guy is peaceful.

  Luc Besson

  Names, Guy, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got us.And that's not deportation, that's - returning stolen property to its proper owner.Now, since the government doesn't want to do that, then they - and they have already proven that they can't bring about peaceful relations on an integrated basis in this country, give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Government, Self

  8 Copy quote

• No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Practice

  4 Copy quote

• US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But of course it is just easier to terrorise people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Boston, Two

  Source: www.dawn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Advice, Syria, Solutions

  Source: legrandsoir.info

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Exercise, Self

  32 Copy quote

• Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a platform, democracy, freedom, respect of human rights that we would like to see respected all over the world and also, a peaceful world order.

  Angela Merkel

  Rights, Order, Democracy

  "Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference". www.the-president.us. November 17, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: time.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is passive. I don't go for anybody who advocates passivism or peaceful suffering in any form whatsoever. I don't go for it.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Suffering

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict - and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate - it's a feature of our system, not a bug. We need less all-or - winner-take-all politics.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Mean, Different, Three

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are already people en route to join this peaceful, prayerful, nonviolent exercise of our human, treaty, constitutional and civil rights, which are at stake, which are constantly being encroached upon by what seems to be [Donald] Trump tyranny.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Exercise, Rights, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In America, we want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they're going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war. That's our purpose.

  Barack Obama

  War, Prosperous Future, America

  Source: genius.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I absolutely believe that America has a responsibility, and the privilege of helping defend freedom and promote the principles that make the world more peaceful. And those principles include human rights, human dignity, free enterprise, freedom of expression, elections.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Responsibility, Rights

  Source: genius.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, Nice, World

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source