Peace Mission Movement

Famous quotes containing the words peace, mission and/or movement:

    “Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.”
    —Titus Livius (Livy)

    “When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
    —Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)

    “Later
    Some movement is reversed and the urgent masks
    Speed toward a totally unexpected end
    Like clocks out of control.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)