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Peace Quotes by Mark Twain
- An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.
- In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of…
- To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and…
- Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he…
- I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
- The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
- It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the…
- From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure…
- I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael…
- Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join…
- Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human…
- Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and…
- It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and…
- The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
- The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and…
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,…
More Peace Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale