Peace & Justice Posters & Art Print Index
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International Day of Peace is September 21.

A quote to instigate peace -

• “There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.” ~ Lord Acton
• “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” ~ Hannah Arendt
• “It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” ~ Honoré de Balzac
• “Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.” ~ Jacques Barzun
• “The bread you do not use is the bread of the hungry. The garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of the person who is naked. The shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot. The money you keep locked away is the money of the poor. The acts of charity you do not perform are the injustices you commit.” ~ St Basil the Great
• “Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.” Celebrations of Life, 1981 ~ Rene Dubos
• “You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
• “The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” ~ Erasmus
• “Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.” ~ Michel Foucault
• “It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace.” ~ André Gide
• “Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” ~ William Hazlitt
• “Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.” ~ Seamus Heaney
• “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”~ Robert Heinlein
• “Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.” ~ Joseph Heller, author Catch-22
• “Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?” ~ Lillian Hellman
• “A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.” ~ Horace
• “Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.” ~ Julia Ward Howe
• “Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bully and truckle, and women who snub and crawl. I know that it is futile to, spurn them, or lash them for trying to get on in the world, and that the world is what it must be from the selfish motives which underlie our economic life.” ~ William Dean Howells
• “Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
• “Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.” ~ Henry Ibsen
• “Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.” ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
• “A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.” ~ Samuel Johnson
• “To push advantages too far is neither generous nor just.” ~ Samuel Johnson
• “In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” ~ Immanuel Kant
• “May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.” ~ Immanuel Kant
• “The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.” ~ Charles Lamb
• “War has always been the chief amusement of mankind. Other amusements are a surrogate for war.” ~ Halldor Laxness
• “In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” ~ Walter Lippman
• “Charity is the bone you share with your dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.” ~ Jack London
• “War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.” ~ Andre Malraux
• “If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.” ~ Henry Miller
• “War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” ~ Thomas Mann
• “I often wonder which is mine: Tolerance, or a rubber spine.” ~ Ogden Nash
• “Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.” ~ Pablo Neruda
• “I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.” ~ Francois Rabelais
• “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” ~ George Sand
• “Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• “A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
• “Compassion is the basis of all morality.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
• “It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.” ~ Mary Godwin Shelley
• “Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.” ~ John Steinbeck
• “True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.” ~ Emanual Swedenborg
• “You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” ~ Tacitus
• “Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.” ~ Thucydides
• “Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out ... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel ... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for ‘the universal brotherhood of man’ - with his mouth.” ~ Mark Twain
• “Possessions make you poor, wealth is measurable only in experience.” ~ Sun Tzu, 621BC
• “The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move.” ~ Joost van den Vondel
• “The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.” ~ E. B. White
• “One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.” ~ E. B. White
• “Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” ~ E. B. White