Archive for the ‘Peace’ Category

Mohandas Gandhi on Peace

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

- Mohandas Gandhi

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Benjamin Franklin on Peace

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Eleanor Roosevelt on Peace

Friday, December 7th, 2007

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Mother Teresa on Peace

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Peace begins with a smile.

- Mother Teresa

John F. Kennedy on Peace

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

Baruch Spinoza on Peace

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

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

- Baruch Spinoza

Oscar W. Firkins on Peace

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations’s professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

- Oscar W. Firkins

David Borenstein on Peace

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

- David Borenstein

Andre Gide on Peace

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

Dwight D. Eisenhower on Peace

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower