#peace

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#art-of-living #desire #famous-quotes #human #incarnation

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#cowardly #escape #only #peace #problems

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#men

one is good but ten is better. together is a powerful, beautiful, and peaceful. ↗

— B. Armynanta

#life-lessons #peace-movement #beauty

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. ↗

— Henry Kissinger

#peace #soldier #war #men

He who is not generous(loving,benevolent),God is not generous(loving,benevolent) to him. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #benevolent #culture #freedom #generous

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#war #men

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#peace #war #men

The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#peace #teaching #writing-craft #art

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace. ↗

— Roméo Dallaire

#peace #money