Mary Jo White Quotes

All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

If you want peace work for justice.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

The price of peace is righteousness.

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene, but I've heard a great deal about how 'Your Republic Is Calling You' reminded English readers of those two writers. I don't really have any particular interest in Cold War spy novels.

They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.