Boris Yeltsin Quotes

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

Boris Yeltsin

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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• It takes heart to be in political life.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Political

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Peace

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Environmental

• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Political
  • Environment

• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Media
  • Bring

• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Beautiful
  • Peace
  • Poetry

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Peace
  • Vietnam War

• Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • War
  • Peace
  • Propaganda

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Problem

• In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Cloud

• For my part, he was God's candidate.

  

  Basil Hume
  • God

• Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • People
  • Remember
  • Movie

• The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Political
  • Peace