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I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.
Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.
The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.