Quotes related to Isaiah 32:17
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
- Dennis Prager
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
- Andrew Jackson
The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- GK Chesterton
Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
- Bede Griffiths
I never tire of reading Tom Paine .
- Abraham Lincoln
No. Have it here where it is quiet. You and your quiet, said Brett. What is it men feel about quiet? We like it, said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.
- Ernest Hemingway
The price of peace is righteousness.
- Ezra Taft Benson
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
- Leonardo Boff
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
- John Adams
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
- Samuel Beckett