Peace Quotes
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.Peace
A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity Eastern Philosophy
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
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Allen, James
1864-1912 British-born American Essayist Author of As a Man Thinketh
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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Amis, Martin
1949 British Author
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Right human relations is the only true peace.
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Bailey, Alice A.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.
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Baruch, Bernard M.
1870-1965 American Financier
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Proverbs 34:14]
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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The peace makers shall be called the children of God.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]
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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
When a person s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.
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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
We ve learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
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Bradley, Omar Nelson
1893-1981 American General
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
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Brahmanada, Swami
Indian Religious Figure
Don t tell me peace has broken out.
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Brecht, Bertolt
1898-1956 German Dramatist Poet
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
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Brittain, Vera
1893-1970 British Writer
He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
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Camus, Albert
1913-1960 French Existential Writer
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.
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Catherine of Genoa, St.
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
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Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame
Chinese Revolutionary Leader
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
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Cleveland, Grover
1837-1908 Twenty-second and 24th President of the USA
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
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Conrad, Joseph
1857-1924 Polish-born British Novelist
Peace is produced by war.
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Corneille, Pierre
1606-1684 French Dramatist
If you want to make peace, you don t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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Dayan, Moshe
1915-1981 Israeli General
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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Dyke, Henry Van
1852--1933 American Protestant Clergyman and Writer
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
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Eisenberg, Larry
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA
We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America s real message to the rest of the world.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
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Eliot, T. S.
1888-1965 American-born British Poet Critic
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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Elk, Black
19th Century American Native Religious Leader
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
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Francis of Assisi, St.
1181-1226 Italian Preacher Founder of the Franciscan Orde
When you re finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you re going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can t we learn to live together like decent people?
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Frank, Borman
American Astronaut
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Peace is not something you wish for; It s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.
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Fulghum, Robert
American Writer Minister Working Cowboy
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
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Gersonides
Philosopher
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Gide, Andre
1869-1951 French Author
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.
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Gladstone, William E.
1809-1888 British Liberal Prime Minister Statesman
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Hammarskjold, Dag
1905-1961 Swedish Statesman Secretary-general of UN
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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Hammarskjold, Dag
1905-1961 Swedish Statesman Secretary-general of UN
I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.
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Hardie, James Keir
1856-1915 British Politician
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Hecht, Ben
1894-1964 American Newspaperman Novelist Playwright
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
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Herbert, George
1593-1632 British Metaphysical Poet
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
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Hoover, Herbert Clark
1874-1964 American - 31st American President
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
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Hubbard, Kin
1868-1930 American Humorist Journalist
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn t have as many monuments to unveil.
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Hubbard, Kin
1868-1930 American Humorist Journalist
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
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Humphrey, Hubert H.
1911-1978 American Democratic Politician Vice President
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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Inge, Dean William R.
1860-1954 Dean of St Paul's London
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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Jerrold, Douglas William
1803-1857 British Humorist Playwright
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
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Jerrold, Douglas William
1803-1857 British Humorist Playwright
To get Peace you must work for Justice.
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John Paul VI
1897-1978 Italian Pope
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Johnson, Lyndon B.
1908-1973 Thirty-sixth President of the USA
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Johnson, Lyndon B.
1908-1973 Thirty-sixth President of the USA
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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Keller, Helen
1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author Lecturer Amorist
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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Kempis, Thomas
1379-1471 German Monk Mystic Religious Writer
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.
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Kempis, Thomas
1379-1471 German Monk Mystic Religious Writer
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Kempis, Thomas
1379-1471 German Monk Mystic Religious Writer
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
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Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963 Thirty-fifth President of the USA
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963 Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963 Thirty-fifth President of the USA
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
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Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963 Thirty-fifth President of the USA
You can t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Kettering, Charles F.
1876-1958 American Engineer Inventor
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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King Jr. Martin Luther
1929-1968 American Black Leader Nobel Prize Winner 1964
Please, we can get along here.
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King, Rodney
American Citizen
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
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Kohe, J. Martin
American Publisher Author
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
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Lennon, John
1940-1980 British Rock Musician
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I m a dreamer, but I m not the only one. I hope someday you ll join us, and the world will be as one.
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Lennon, John
1940-1980 British Rock Musician
All we are saying is give peace a chance...
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Lennon, John
1940-1980 British Rock Musician
Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
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L'Estrange, Sir Roger
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.
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Maslow, Abraham H.
1908-1970 American Psychologist
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
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Mckinley, William
1843-1901 US Statesman and 25th President
Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.
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Mehta, C. C.
One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?
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Meyer, Michael Holmboe
Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
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Milton, John
1608-1674 British Poet
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
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Moore, Marianne
1887-1972 American Poet
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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Mother Teresa
1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
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Mother Teresa
1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.
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Murry, John Middleton
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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Muste, A. J.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Nehru, Jawaharlal
1889-1964 Indian Nationalist Statesman
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Nehru, Jawaharlal
1889-1964 Indian Nationalist Statesman
Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
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Nicols, Peter
1927 British Playwright
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
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Nixon, Richard M.
1913-1994 Thirty-seventh President of the USA
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.
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Nyerere, Julius Kambarge
1922 Tanzanian Statesman President
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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O'Connor, Basil
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
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Pope John XXIII
1881-1963 Italian Head of Roman Catholic Order
If you want peace work for justice.
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Pope Paul VI
1897-1978 Pope from 1963-1978
If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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Proverb
When we can t find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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Proverb
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Proverb, Indian
Sayings of Indian Origin
Peace with a club in hand is war.
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Proverb, Portuguese
Sayings of Portuguese Origin
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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Proverb, Turkish
Sayings of Turkish Origin
The peace dividend is peace.
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Quayle, Dan
1947 American Politician Vice-President
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
1884-1962 American First Lady Columnist Lecturer Humanitarian
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1882-1945 Thirty-second President of the USA
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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Roosevelt, Theodore
1858-1919 Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another s keeping.
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Roosevelt, Theodore
1858-1919 Twenty-sixth President of the USA
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
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Ruskin, John
1819-1900 British Critic Social Theorist
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
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Sadat, Anwar
Sometime they ll give a war and nobody will come.
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Sandburg, Carl
1878-1967 American Poet
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
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Schucman, Helen
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
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Serling, Rod
1924-1975 American Television Script-writer
A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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Smiles, Samuel
1812-1904 Scottish Author
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
1632-1677 Dutch Philosopher and Theologian
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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Steiner, George
1929 French-born American Critic Novelist
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Stevenson, Adlai E.
1900-1965 American Lawyer Politician
They make a wilderness and call it peace.
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Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
55-117 AD Roman Historian
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Thant, U.
1909-1974 Burmese Diplomat
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Theresa of Lisieux, St.
1873-1897 French Saint
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Teacher
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
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Thomson, James
1700-1748 Scottish Poet
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
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Truman, Harry S.
1884-1972 Thirty-third President of the USA
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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Truman, Harry S.
1884-1972 Thirty-third President of the USA
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
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Unesco
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
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Unknown, Source
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.
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Unknown, Source
The best way to end a war is not to begin it.
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Unknown, Source
Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.
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Unknown, Source
Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.
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Unknown, Source
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
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Unknown, Source
Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
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Unknown, Source
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
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Washington, George
1732-1799 First President of the USA
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Washington, George
1732-1799 First President of the USA
Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
1807-1892 American Poet Reformer Author
Peace is our gift to each other.
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Wiesel, Elie
1928 Rumanian-born American Writer
Peace is not God s gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.
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Wiesel, Elie
1928 Rumanian-born American Writer
It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.
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Wilson, Woodrow T.
1856-1924 Twenty-eighth President of the USA
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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Wilson, Woodrow T.
1856-1924 Twenty-eighth President of the USA
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Woolf, Virginia
1882-1941 British Novelist Essayist
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Zedong, Mao
1893-1976 Founder of Chinese Communist State