Juanita Morrow Nelson quotes

“Small is good, but none is better.”
-- Juanita Morrow Nelson

#Peace Quotes

“We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”

Source : Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)

“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.20, Lulu.com

“The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.”

“Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.”

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

Source : Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96