War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

War is what happens when language fails.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

A siege is an act of war.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Children make your life important.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.