The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

On all the peaks lies peace.

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

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

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

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

There was never a good war, or a bad 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.

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

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.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

I always entertain great hopes.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Hope is a waking dream.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

More law, less justice.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

Marriage is the death of hope.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

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

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

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.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.