Edmund Burke Quotes

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world.

When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.

All concord's born of contraries.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

In Russia, we are ready to listen to our partners, ready to listen to appraisals and assessments when it is done in a friendly manner, in order to establish contacts and create a common atmosphere and dedicate ourselves to shared values. But we absolutely will not accept when such things are used as a tool of political struggle. I want everybody to know that. This is our message.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

I detest violence. I have a tremendous respect not only for human life but also for the animal life that I have to live with, and I believe that our destiny as human beings is to become nature-conscious as well as self-conscious, living in loving relationship and in balance and in harmony, not only with one another, but with the entire natural world.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.