Peace Quotes - Page 24

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.