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

I am a just man.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I’m ugly.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

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.

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.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

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

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

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.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.