Quotes tagged “peace”
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
...it seemed to me we had the kind of awakening that the great religions first intended, and that somehow it involved everybody. There were kids there. There were old people there, and in other parts of the building there were people just dancing and dancing... we had a chance to awaken our hearts, unbound by any particular cultural or religious commitments to this group or that. It seemed to me, and I'm meaning this very seriously, a prime religious experience that transcended all the bondages and definitions of who and what we are that are the curse of the world today. The Deadheads are doing the dance of life, and this, I would say, is the answer to the atom bomb.
— Joseph Campbell
War is Terrorism with a Bigger Budget
— sign at the SF peace rally, 1/18/2003
Violence := Any act that reduces self-esteem
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.
— Joshua
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
You cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent war.
— Albert Einstein
There is no way to peace, peace is the way
— A.J. Muste
Nuclear war would really set back cable.
— Ted Turner
The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.'
Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity.
Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier--but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open.
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
— Mark Twain
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the Kings and Princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks
The real work of Christmas begins.To find the lost
To heal the broken
To feed the hungry
To release the prisoners
To rebuild the nations
To bring peace among brothers
To make music in the heart.
— Nineteenth Century Quaker Benediction Traditionally Spoken at Christmas
All we are saying is give peace a chance
— John Lennon
All wars are fought for money.
— Socrates
- "All I want is peace on earth, good will toward men."
- "We're the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing!"
— from the movie Sneakers
Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all.
— David J. Constable
“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.
— James Morrow