Showing posts with label peace quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace quotes. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2014

Peace Quotes

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.” Scilla Elworthy 
"I was just trying to get to work." Rosa Parks
"I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children-not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women-not merely peace in our time but peace for all time." John F Kennedy
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert F Kennedy
"Peace is its own reward" Mahatma Gandhi
“Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice, of law, of order – in short, of government.” Albert Einstein
"So many guns around and so few brains." Humphrey Bogart
"Be at peace with yourself, if you are not at peace with yourself, you are at peace with nothing." Ron W. Rathbun
"Entre los individuos como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz" Benito Juarez 
"Peace is every step." Thich Nhat Hanh
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." John F Kennedy
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." John Lennon
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix
"Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is." Kofi Annan
"Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world." Malala Yousafzai

Reference http://www.visionofhumanity.org/

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Principles that can bring peace

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. 
 Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
    
 What do you think about this quote? I have been speculating on this quote to figure it out. Knowing the author’s background, I guess it’s about being diligent that can make us be free from pressures or slump. He is a lecturer, poet and essayist who wrote mainly about self-improvement and successful life.


 However I would like to apply it to world peace, not 
only to individual peace. I thought world peace also can be brought only by ourselves and the triumph of principles. What would be ‘the principles’ in this case? It might be the principles of to get along with other people and not to fight with anyone. Yes, it’s love. In other words, not being selfish but being altruistic. Sounds really elementary, yet it is not easy to put in action. Again, there’s no other one who can bring us peace but ourselves, so it is us who 
should make the principles achieve a triumph too.

 How is it possible to be selfish and altruistic at the same time? Be diligent for yourself and be loving for all of us. In this way we may achieve a perfect peace!

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Peace we make : Harmony (1)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

EllenJohnson Sirleaf is born at 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. She is first woman president in Liberia, who won Nobel Peace Prize 2011. She fought for Liberia's autocracy, and for recovery of wars. Her peace movement, fighting for womens rights. Her prize motivation is "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for womens rights to full participation in peace-building work". 



Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.
-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.
-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.
-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Peace Quotes

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.” Scilla Elworthy

"I was just trying to get to work." Rosa Parks

"I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children-not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women-not merely peace in our time but peace for all time." John F Kennedy

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert F Kennedy

"Peace is its own reward" Mahatma Gandhi

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

"So many guns around and so few brains." Humphrey Bogart

"Be at peace with yourself, if you are not at peace with yourself, you are at peace with nothing." Ron W. Rathbun

"Entre los individuos como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz" Benito Juarez 

"Peace is every step." Thich Nhat Hanh

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

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." John F Kennedy

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." John Lennon

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

"Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is." Kofi Annan

"Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world." Malala Yousafzai


Reference
  • http://www.visionofhumanity.org