Defending peace is the duty of all.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Peace begins with a smile.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

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

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.