936 private quotes tagged peace

“As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.”— Arthur Henderson

“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”— Gerry Adams

“Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.”— Imelda Staunton

“That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.”— Prem Rawat

“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”— Dag Hammarskjold

“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”— Gerald Jampolsky

“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”— Serj Tankian

“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.”— John Foster Dulles

“A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.”— Henry Van Dyke

“When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.”— Abraham Kuyper

“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.”— Elihu Root

“There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.”— Richard Holbrooke

“Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.”— Kin Hubbard

“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.”— Shirley MacLaine

“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.”— Peace Pilgrim

“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”— David Mamet

“It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.”— Diane Kruger

“I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.”— Anne Lamott

“Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.”— Marvin Gaye

“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.”— Julien Benda

“It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.”— Arthur Henderson

“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.”— Natan Sharansky

“Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.”— Natan Sharansky

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”— Aesop

“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.”— Michelle Bachelet