#peace

Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But...I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people. ↗

— Agnes Kamara-umunna

#hope #humanitarianism #inspirational #inspirational

A conqueror is always a lover of peace. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#conqueror #lover #peace

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nostalgia #peace #change

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

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#capacity #compassion #else #fatal #feeling

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world. ↗

— Ralph Bunche

#free world #great #great hope #hope #nations

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. ↗

— Billy Carter

#into #mother #peace #peace corps #she

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#exist #find #i #israel #last

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#casualty #first #graveyard #implies #keep