#peace

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ↗

— Norman Angell

#courses #desires #every #every nation #impossible

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#century #compassion #create #got #gritty

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#include #losers #neither #nor #peace

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow. ↗

— Guy Burgess

#feature #folks #fought #from time to time #justice

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns. ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

#butter #cannot #despite #guns #love

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#peace #star #star wars #wars

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. ↗

— Washington Irving

#peace #death

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#glass #good-will #heart #here #hopeless

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech) ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#freedom #peace #freedom

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#american #being #century #fifth #here