Quotes

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

--John Lennon

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

--Ernest Hemingway

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

--Albert Einstein

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

--Plato

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

--Jimi Hendrix

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world...

Deepak Chopra

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If you want world peace, fight for justice.

--bumper sticker

All we are saying is: give peace a chance.

--John Lennon

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people,

but the appalling silence of the good people." -- Dr. King

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Kofi Annan

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.

--Helen Keller

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Kofi Annan

Nationalism is an infantile diease, the measles of mankind

--Albert Einstein

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

--Gore Vidal

The search for truth is more precious than its possession

--Albert Einstein

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

--Thomas Jefferson

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt

--Bertrand Russell

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office

--Aesop (~550 BC)

The men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try and tell them the truth.

--H. L. Mencken

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

--Ronald Reagan

Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself.

--Mark Twain

Politics is more difficult than physics.

--Albert Einstein

Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

--Flannery O'Connor

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

--Mark Twain

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage;from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.

--Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

--Thomas Jefferson

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.

--Josef Stalin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

--Benjamin Franklin

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Alexander Woollcott

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Lewis Mumford

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' Why We Can't Wait 1963.

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

--Frederick Douglass

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Karl Marx

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Thinking men cannot be ruled.

--Ayn Rand

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Aristotle

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs least.

Thomas Paine

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Sydney J. Harris

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it

--Woodrow Wilson

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

--Mahatma Gandhi

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

--James Madison

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.

--Mahatma Gandhi

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

--Mother Teresa

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

--Albert Einstein

Be kind to unkind people; they probably need it the most.

--Ashleigh Brilliant

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love

--Mahatma Gandhi

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

--Mahatma Gandhi

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

--Mother Teresa

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

--Helen Keller

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

You don't face your fears, you stand up to them.

--Unknown

The key to change . . . is to let go of fear.

--Rosanne Cash

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

--Pope John XXIII

Fear not that your life will someday end. Fear only that you do nothing with it.

--Unknown

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mandela

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you want to see in the world.

--Mahatma Gandhi

We will speed the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing ...Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Address at Lincoln Memorial during March on Washington, 28 Aug 1963

Therefore be at peace with your god, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life. Keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

--Max Ehr

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.

--Mark Twain