Nothing good ever comes of violence.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

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

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. 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.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There’s a select few that will never like me. They don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They’re going to be negative no matter what.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.