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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.
The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process
We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.
In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.
Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.
Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.
It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.
I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.