The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

I think America has always been polarized.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.