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

“One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.” ~ David [...]]]> “Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

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

“One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.” ~ David Borenstein

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peace is a journe of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” Lyndon B. Johnson

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Peace is its own reward.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi

“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” ~ Baruch Spinoza

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

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

“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

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.” Irving Babbit

“A people free to choose will always choose peace.” Ronald Reagan

“You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.” Geraldine Ferraro

“Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.” Yiddish Proverb

“I want for [...]]]> “The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.” Tennesse Claflin

“Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.” Yiddish Proverb

“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute quality.” Anges Macphail

“Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.” Confucius

“All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free.” Voltaire

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” Aristotle

“Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior.” Socrates

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow..” William Faulkner

“Men are born equal but they are also born different.” Erich Fromm

“The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.” John Fischer

“Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.” Plato

“The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” Martin Luther King Jr

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.” Thomas Jefferson

“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.” Confucius

“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.” Voltaire

“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.” Kofi Annan

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” Irving Kristol

“Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we’re better than anyone else. Because it’s our beliefs that are right, our doubts that are allowable ones, our fears which are legitimate.” Audrey Beth Stein

“People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.” Linda Ellerbee

“The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.” Thomas Jefferson

“Equality is the sould of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.” Frances Wright

“We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.” Eva Burrows

“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.” Marlo Thomas

“Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.” Albert Einstein

“More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.” Kofi Annan

“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.” Tom Robbins

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.” Carl Schurz

“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.” David Alland Coe

“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?” ~ Confucius

“The best thing to give to your enemy is [...]]]> “Men are respectable only as they respect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?” ~ Confucius

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness, to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.” ~ Cyril Connolly

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” ~ Maya Angelou

“This is the final test of a gentleman; his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.” ~ William Lyon Phelps

“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. ” ~ Albert Einstein

“Self respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” ~ Abraham J. Heschel

“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.“ ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“We can really respect a man only if he doesn’t always look out for himself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.“ ~ John Lennon

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.” ~ Laurence Sterne

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” ~ Confucius

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ” ~ Lao Tzu

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.” ~ Voltaire

“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.” ~ Jane Austen

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. ” ~ Jackie Robinson

“This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. ” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect. ” ~ Tupac Shakur

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” ~ Clint Eastwood

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” ~ Albert Camus

“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. ” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.” ~ Margaret Mead

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. ” ~ James A. Baldwin

“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. ” ~ Richard M. Nixon

“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ” ~ Bertrand Russell

“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.” ~ Louis Pasteur

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” ~ George Santayana

“Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we’re gone.” ~ William J. Clinton

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” ~ Bono

“There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. ” ~ Orison Swett Marden

“Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? ” ~ Abdul Kalam

“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.” ~ Jane Addams

“As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.” ~ Vera Wang

“I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.” ~ Erykah Badu

“Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. ” ~ Eldridge Cleaver

“If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me. ” ~ Fiona Apple

“Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.” ~ Nathaniel Branden

“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.” ~ Frank Herbert

“Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.” ~ Sydney Smith

“Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.” ~ Philip James Bailey

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.” ~ Laurence Sterne

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

“Do not do to others what angers you if done [...]]]> “Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”

“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”

“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”

“All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

“An honest man is always a child.”

“The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.”

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”

“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

“The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.”

“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

“Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“Philosophy begins with wonder.”

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

“How much there is in the world I do not want.”

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”

“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”

“If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”

“The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”

“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”

“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

“An education obrained with money is worse than no education at all.”

“What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.”

“All my concerts had no sounds in them;  they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!”

“Each time [...]]]> “I love dancing. I think it’s better to dance than to march through life.”

“What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.”

“All my concerts had no sounds in them;  they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!”

“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many times you died this week.”

“What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.”

“Art is my life and my life is art.”

“We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.”

“Dying is a necessary act for living. Just like inhaling is necessary in order to exhale.”

“Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.”

“True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so lonely.”

“At least I had that, one guy understood me.

“The cynicism that you have is not your real “soul.”

“Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.”

“I love dancing. I think it’s better to dance than to march through life.”

“The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.”

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”

“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.”

“I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.”

“People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.”

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.  Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.  Autunm passes and one remembers one’s reverence.  Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”

“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.”

“No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.”

“If he’s observing me from up there, I’m sure he’s proud of me.  It’s going to go on and on.  This is what I love now, so it’s great.”

“I think of John every day.  I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.”

“Cosmetics is a boom to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near sighted man.”

“I’m a very obsessive type.  If I do get into it, I’ll soon be there 12 hours a day.  I just don’t want to do that.”

“I’m not going to doubt my life.”

“When people get cynical about love, they should look at us (Yoko and John Lennon) and see it is possible.”

“If your life changes, we can change the world, too.”

“John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.”

“I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don’t have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art.  It is a necessity;  a function.  We don’t need history.”

“Life with another person is always difficult.”

“Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.”

“Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.”

“Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right’ Sean’s doing his own thing.”

“When I read about the battle of the widows, I thought I’m not John’s widow, Yoko is John’s widow.”