Best 6010 quotes in «peace quotes» category

Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

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

Violence is sometimes a duty.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

Walk and touch peace every moment. Walk and touch happiness every moment. Each step brings a fresh breeze. Each step makes a flower bloom. Kiss the Earth with your feet. Bring the Earth your love and happiness. The Earth will be safe when we feel safe in ourselves.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to rule the people for the Government instead of for the purpose of serving the people. When will the people see that the very taxes they pay are building a power to be used against them?

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

War is a defeat for humanity.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.