"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."

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"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."

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"Peace is produced by war."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Peace is peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To achieve peace,we needed to have a war to start with."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. 'Do not let your hearts be troubled,' she said. 'Tonight you shall sleep in peace.' Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Appreciations promote inner peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Explore more quotes by E. P. Thompson

"For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours."

Politics, State

"I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British."

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"I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not."

Leadership, Care

"The missiles come first, and the justifications come second."

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"The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization."

Society, Experts

"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."

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"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."

Peace, Garden

"The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all."

Balance, Talk

"Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits."

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"I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side."

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