A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few… — Garry Kilworth Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are… — Jan Narveson Copy Share Image
“Every Christian must be a broken person. To enter the kingdom, we must acknowledge that the inner peace we yearn for can… — Mark R. McMinn Copy Share Image
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
“Believing the world is calm because we have never seen it otherwise is like taking the attitude of a man who jumps… — Stephen Webb Copy Share Image
Please enlighten what is dark in me, strengthen what is weak, mend what is broken, bind what is bruised, heal what is… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
“Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
John Lennon imagined a world filled with peace and love. Martin Luther King dreamt of a world free from racial discrimination and… — Jon Lajoie Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you want peace and well-being to be in place in the Middle East and you want terrorism to be uprooted, then… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
Our fundamental goal in getting involved in Bosnia in the summer of 1995 was to end the war. Richard Holbrooke's fundamental goal… — Ivo Daalder Copy Share Image
It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
“Isn't forgiveness a holy virtue? And if so, then why do we insist on keeping historical records of resentment? Is the Creator… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace… — Michael Oren Copy Share Image
“but in Heaven we will have total peace We will be completely changed when we get to Heaven—and so, too, will those… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“I mutter and mutter and no one to listen. I speak my words in Japanese and my daughter will not hear them.… — Hiromi Goto Copy Share Image
We greatly influence others with our thoughts...If our thoughts are kind, peaceful, and quiet, turned only toward good, then we also influence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“You were given a task by the Lord and Lady of High Heaven themselves. Quit now, and forsake all Grens who care… — Ethan Melman Copy Share Image