Thomas aKempis (1380-1471)
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| First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. |
John Abbott (1821-1893)
Prime minister of Canada |
| War is the science of destruction. |
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902)
Lord Acton |
| Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men... There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. |
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1915)
Historian. |
Politics... have always been the systematic organisation of hatreds.
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| Practical politics consists of ignoring facts. |
Douglas Adams (1952-)
Science Fiction writer |
| Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody -- maybe even disliking them a lot -- and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. |
Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
Psychologist |
| It is easier to fight for one’s principles than live up to them. |
Felix Adler (1851-1933)
German-born American educator. |
| Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. |
John Agard (1949-)
Modern British/Guyanese poet;
from One Question From A Bullet |
I want to give up being a bullet
I've been a bullet too long
The question is
Can you give up being a killer? |
Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
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| To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. |
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
U.S. singer |
| Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
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| No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. |
Anon
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A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
The Bible - Book of Proverbs
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it's poured.
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Nil neart gan cuir le cheile.There is no power without co-operation.
a sean-fhocail or Irish "old word"
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.
Vatican statement to the U.N., 1976
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There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.
Chinese proverb
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There will be peace when we begin to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
Lebanese citizen, New York Times
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
French Proverb
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What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
Swedish proverb
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What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
Russian Proverb
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May there always be sunshine, may there always be blue skies, may there always be Mama, may there always be me.
Russian boy, age 5
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| The definition of insanity is to repeat the same action over and over again and expect a different result. |
Thomas Aquinas (1244-1274)
Christian Saint |
| In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention. |
Corazon Aquino, (1933-)
former president of the Philipines |
| Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. |
Oscar Arias (1941-)
Former president of Costa Rica |
| Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. |
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Science Fiction writer. |
| United Nations, New York, December 25. The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world. |
Augustine (354-430)
Christian Saint |
| Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. |
| Punishment is justice for the unjust. |
| The purpose of all war is peace. |
Tim Ault ( -)
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| A trouble is a scratch, scratches turn into scars and scars grow with you. |
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-)
Burmese pro-democracy leader |
| We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself...It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting. |
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
De Augmentis ,IV, 372-3 |
| Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things, |
Joan Baez (1941-)
US folksinger and guitarist |
| You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live. Now. |
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
Former British Prime Minister |
| A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. |
| War would end if the dead could return. |
Honore de Balzac(1799-1850)
French author. |
| Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. |
| Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. |
John Kendrick Bangs
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| Pandemonium did not reign; it poured. |
Dave Barry from
Kids Today - They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do |
| Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. |
King Baudouin I (1930-1993)
King of Belgium address to US Congress,
May 11, 1959 |
| Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. |
Romare Howard Bearden (1914-1988)
U.S. artist. |
| There are roads out of the secret place within us which we must all move as we go to touch others. |
Menachem Begin (1913-1992)
On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, March 1979 |
| No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever. |
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
Scots-American inventor |
| When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. See very similar attribution to Helen Keller. |
Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
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| The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. |
Georges Bernanos (1888-1948)
French novelist |
| Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. |
Daniel Berrigan (1921-)
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| A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. |
Bhagavad Gita (c B C 400)
Sanskrit Poem Incorporated into
the Mahabharata |
| Austerity of speech consists in speaking truthfully and beneficially and in avoiding speech that offends. |
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914(?))
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| Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. |
| A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. |
| Peace, n.In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. |
| Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. |
Caleb Bingham (1811-1879)
American Painter |
| Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. |
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
Prussian statesman |
| Politics is not an exact science. |
| Politics is the art of the possible. |
William Blake (1757-1827)
"The Divine Image" from Songs of Innocence |
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love
All pray in their distress,
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
For Mercy Pity Peace and Love
Is God our father dear.
And Mercy Pity Peace and Love
Is Man his child and care.
Then every man of every clime
That prays in his distress
Prays to the human form divine:
Love Mercy Pity Peace.
And all must love the human form
In heathen, Turk, or Jew.
Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell
There God is dwelling too. |
Elise Bolding
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| There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity. |
Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981)
US General |
| Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.We know more about war than we know about peace,more about killing than we know about living.We have grasped the mystery of the atomand rejected the Sermon on the Mount. |
| The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. |
| We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about killing than we do about living.
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| We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live. |
Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
US Supreme Court Justice |
| The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. |
Georges Brassens (1921-1981)
French Poet-singer. |
Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice
To sort it all out once and for all
With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads
In Paradise we should all be by now
But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed
The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable
Thus it is death,
an endless cycle of death |
Aristide Briand (1862-1932)
French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize, 1926 |
| The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made. |
Herb Brody
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| Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rear view mirror. |
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
British poet. |
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And baffled, get up and begin again. |
| He who did well in war just earns the right to begin doing well in peace. |
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
Burned at the stake |
| It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. |
William Cullen Bryant (1764-1878)
US journalist, critic and orator. |
| Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. |
John Buchan (1875-1940)
Scottish author |
| We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. |
Pearl Buck (1892-1973)
U.S. novelist |
| Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. |
Napoleon Buonaparte (1769-1821)
French soldier and emperor |
| Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit. |
| Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. |
| You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. |
| If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots. |
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Brilliant Irish thinker and orator. |
| By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. |
| I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. |
| Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. |
| Our patience will achieve more than our force. |
| Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. |
| I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. |
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
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| A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. |