Peace Quotes - Page 14

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Capitalists control the machineries. They create difficulties to the workers. Consequently rationalism, which has to lead the way for peaceful life to all, has resulted in causing poverty and worries to the people because of dominating forces.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

I believe it is peace for our time.

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process