936 private quotes tagged peace

“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.” — Colin Powell

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“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” — Leon Trotsky

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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.” — Pythagoras

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“War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.” — Andre Malraux

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“We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.” — George W. Bush

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“To secure peace is to prepare for war.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.” — Adam Smith

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“When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.” — Charles Stanley

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“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.” — Robert Johnson

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“We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.” — Marianne Williamson

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“Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.” — Norman Borlaug

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“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.” — John Paul Jones

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“He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.” — Moliere

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“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.” — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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

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“Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.” — Benazir Bhutto

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“The purpose of all wars, is peace.” — Saint Augustine

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“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.” — Andrew Jackson

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“The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.” — Nikita Khrushchev

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

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