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"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
Abraham Lincoln
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
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"I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act."
Yitzhak Rabin
"I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act."
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"May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace."
Yoweri Museveni
"May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace."
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"Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers."
Ahmed Ben Bella
"Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers."
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"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations."
Kofi Annan
"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations."
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"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
Moshe Dayan
"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
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"You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies."
Yitzhak Rabin
"You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies."
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"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."
Mohandas Gandhi
"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."
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"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement."
Robert Mugabe
"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement."
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"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within."
Sandra Cisneros
"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within."
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"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
Mother Teresa
"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
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"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
Baruch Spinoza
"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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"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations."
Yasser Arafat
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations."
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"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."
Hassan Nasrallah
"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."
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"But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter."
Elle Macpherson
"But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter."
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"I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that."
Walid Jumblatt
"I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that."
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"I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian."
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian."
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"Peace in the head, peace in the stomach."
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"Peace in the head, peace in the stomach."
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"Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace."
Kim Il sung
"Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace."
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"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
Isabel Allende
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
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"I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam."
Sun Myung Moon
"I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam."
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"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."
Dag Hammarskjold
"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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"Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career."
Emerson Fittipaldi
"Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career."
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"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
Dalai Lama
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
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"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."
Wangari Maathai
"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."
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"But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability."
Omar Bongo
"But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability."
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"The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador."
Boutros Boutros Ghali
"The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador."
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"Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country."
Hun Sen
"Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country."
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"For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place."
Owen Arthur
"For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place."
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"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."
Dalai Lama
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."
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"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."
Adam Smith
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."
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"Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran."
Moshe Katsav
"Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran."
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"Respect for the rights of others means peace."
Benito Juarez
"Respect for the rights of others means peace."
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"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
Pablo Neruda
"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
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"Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace."
Raul Julia
"Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace."
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"In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace."
Feisal Abdul Rauf
"In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace."
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"Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed."
Abdallah II
"Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed."
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"We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace."
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace."
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"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
Albert Reynolds
"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
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"It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents."
Nursultan Nazarbayev
"It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents."
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"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
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"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for."
Joichi Ito
"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for."
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"I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace."
Yitzhak Rabin
"I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace."
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"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."
Feisal Abdul Rauf
"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."
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"Sharon is capable of making peace."
Hosni Mubarak
"Sharon is capable of making peace."
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"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham."
King Hussein I
"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham."
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"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace."
King Hussein I
"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace."
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"But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war."
Fredrik Bajer
"But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war."
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"My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions."
Omar Bongo
"My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions."
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"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it."
Jenny Shipley
"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it."
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