I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

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

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

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

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

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

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

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.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

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 am rather inclined to silence.

I am two with nature.

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.

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

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

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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