#peace

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

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

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#family #fence #finding #fractured #got

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#deep-seated #driving #forces #intellectual #mankind

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. ↗

— Abdullah Ibrahim

#change #converge #find #knowledge #mind

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#bosnia #could #i #i think #made

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#impossible #inevitable #make #peaceful #revolution

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#bare #battle #become #before #begin

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#american #anywhere #bring #could #deal

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. ↗

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#militarism #peace #war #art