Rachel Carson Quotes

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

Peace and love, peace and love!

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

War would end if the dead could return.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.