Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

War settles nothing.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

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.

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

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

He would make a lovely corpse.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The world is too violent right now.

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

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Peace is its own reward.

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.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.