Friday, September 7, 2007

PEACE Proverbs (Compiled by Thang Hlun)

“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order - in short, of government.”
~ Albert Einstein

"Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts."
~ John Harricharan

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
~ Agatha Christie

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." ~ Jimi Hendrix

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
~ Benjamin Franklin

“The Global Peace Index will undoubtedly make the factors and qualities that contribute to that status (of peacefulness) better known, and encourage people to foster them in their own countries.”
~ His Holiness The Dalai Lama

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
~ Anton Chekov

Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps and our children go to school with books under their arms, not with rifles under their arms. We reject violence.
~ Dr Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica

"Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."
~ Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
~ Mother Teresa

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
~ Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
~ Agatha Christie

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
~ Anton Chekov

“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war."
~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

"Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."
~ Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We pursue sustainability in the hope that we can live in peace."
~ Tim Flannery

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."
~ John Andrew Holmes

"In the name of peace They waged the wars Ain't they got no shame"
~ Nikki Giovanni

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
~ Dorothy Thompson

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
~Martin LutherKing Jr.

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
~ Agatha Christie

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." ~ Jimi Hendrix

"Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."
~ Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament."
~ J. Ramsay MacDonald
"Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We pursue sustainability in the hope that we can live in peace."
~ Tim Flannery

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
~ Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi

"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."
~ Croesus

“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order - in short, of government.”
~ Albert Einstein

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