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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.
Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.
And know if I'll only be true to the glorious quest That my heart lies peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.