Top 1200 Peaceful Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.

The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind....Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

I would make the case that the vast majority of prisoners leave prison and go back into society. We share that society with them and what sort of people do we want them to be.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way.

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me?

As our own peace of mind grows, so the atmosphere around us becomes more peaceful.

Many people in the society get upset when the daughter is born. They think that only a son can take their name forward in the society, but it has been proved that the daughter is not less than the sons.

It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don't meet the population's needs, when they are not up to expectations, that leaves society free to pick other parties.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

And know if I'll only be true to the glorious quest That my heart lies peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.

An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

Progress can't happen just from trans people being out in the open. Society also has to truly accept transgender individuals. If society is capable of treating us equally, then we can and will live authentically.

I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

The 'Bohemian Manifesto' represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change.

I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.

We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.

I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels of consumption, increasing social inequality is not a society that can be part of the solution of the world's problems.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.

Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.