Sarojini Naidu Quotes

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Anything is better than a fruitless, hopeless, unnatural civil war.

The English will never cut each other's throats to the extent that we desire.

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. Nations had risen against nations, employing the subtlest devices of mechanism and mind to waste, and excruciate, and overthrow. The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other. Wheel within wheel, the vast machine was instinct with the restless spirit of desolation.

I'm not in love with fighting. I never was.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.