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Peace Quotes
"A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability."
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"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."
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"I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed."
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"The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process."
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"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."
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"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."
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"The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis."
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"In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva."
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"Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace."
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"My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'"
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"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
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"It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous."
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"The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability."
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"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
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"He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace."
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"We need knew knights, but without swords."
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"Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it."
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"Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings."
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"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."
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"We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace."
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"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."
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"The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world."
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"God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it."
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"We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides."
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"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."
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"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."
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"Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause."
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"Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace."
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"My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace."
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"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
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"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
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"It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything."
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