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Waging Peace
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Peace Quotations - Gallery 1
"In the name of peace
They waged the wars
ain't they got no shame?"
Nikki Giovanni, The Great Pax Whitie
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. "
Mahatma Gandhi
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be
fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein
"What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
"One must care about a world one will never see."
"Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
Alfred Adler
"Peace begins when the hungry are fed. "
Unattributed
"Change comes not from men and women changing their minds,
but from the change from
one generation to the next."
J. K. Galbraith
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
St. Francis of Assisi
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it
that in the process he does not become a monster.
And when you look into an abyss,
the abyss also looks into you."
Friedrich Nietzche
Only when there are many people
who are pools of peace, silence, understanding,
will war disappear. "
Osho
"If you want peace, work for justice."
Pope Paul VI
"When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."
Peace Pilgrim
"All we ask, God, is to be safe from the rain,
just warm enough in winter to watch the snow with a smile,
have enough to eat so that our hunger will not turn us to angry beasts,
and sanity enough to make justice that will not kill our love of life."
Joseph Pinatauro
Do you want long life and happiness? Strive for peace with all your heart."
Psalm 34:12,14
When the rich make war, it's the poor that die."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"God grant me the courage to change the things I can,
the patience to accept the things I can't,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
The Serenity Prayer
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
"The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .
When leaders act contrary to conscience,
we must act contrary to leaders."
Veterans Fast for Life
"It is only by feeling your love that the poor will forgive you for the gifts of bread."
St. Vincent de Paul
"Taking the first footstep with a good thought,
the second with a good word,
and the third with a good deed,
I entered paradise."
Zoroaster
"That's all nonviolence is - organized love."
Joan Baez
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth,
all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend
and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world
and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?"
Frank Borman
"We do not inherit the earth from our fathers.
We borrow it from our children."
David Bower
"In separateness lies the world's great misery;
in compassion lies the world's true strength."
Buddha
"What good is it to me that Mary
gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago,
and I do not also give birth to the Son of God
in my time and in my culture?
We are all meant to be mothers of God.
God is always needing to be born."
Meister Eckhart
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