“I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
“It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I carry my flute around everywhere I go and pull it out. It actually becomes a panacea for me, for things that… — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more… — CrimethInc Copy Share Image
“For among the many things that warfare does is temporarily define the entire enemy population as superfluous, as expendable—a redefinition that must… — David E. Stannard Copy Share Image
“The most efficient way to transcend unsettling thoughts is through the life breath. When we bring our full attention to the life… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“Outer pleasure and pain is under the control of ‘Scientific circumstantial evidences’ and to have the inner peace [inner pleasure] is the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“He'd imagined peacetime would bring him a sense of belonging. During the war it kept him going, that thought of peace. He'd… — Amanda Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
We need to create a new paradigm of development and happiness that can generate a three-dimensional peace – peace with ourselves, peace… — Anwar Fazal Copy Share Image
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
When is war not war? Its when committing cold-blooded murder is called the right thing. When major media scoundrels cheerlead it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
“We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet,… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose,… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
“Meditation has countless benefits - from better health to increased focus to a deeper sense of calm - but the biggie is… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature… — Guy Burgess Copy Share Image
Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“The dismal course of the conflict, dragging on from one decade to the next and from one deadlock to the next, seems… — C. V. Wedgewood Copy Share Image
“We are often reminded how peaceful our world has become, a world without a police force or prison, where crimes and uprisings… — Jonathan Friesen Copy Share Image
“But this boy in a French or British factory, standing in his leather overall welding the casing on a metal bomb; what… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs… — Jocelyn Davies Copy Share Image
“We have been marching for the last one hundred and fifty years. We sacrifice our individual liberties, and sometimes we fail and… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“It’s not about you. It’s not about me. This life that we live, the reason we’re here. It’s only when we see… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
“we know the way; we got our knowledge of it from thousands of years in the labyrinth. Who else has found it?—The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Always know when to let go. When a thought is bringing you more misery than peace, let go of the thought; when… — Brigitte Nicole Copy Share Image
Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image