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Peace Quotes
"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace."
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"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."
37
"To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations."
37
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."
37
"To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag."
37
"Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice."
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"Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth."
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"Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations."
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"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."
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"Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained."
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"We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead."
37
"Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace."
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"Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa."
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"If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes."
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"A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell."
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"Stop turning every others battle into yours. Sometimes amidst of all the wars, all you need to become is the lighthouse, not the sword."
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"Through meditation we can channel outer energy to create inner calmness and peace."
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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."
36
"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace."
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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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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
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"There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained."
36
"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
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"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."
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"Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time."
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
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"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."
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"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
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"But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?"
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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."
36
"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing."
36
"The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace."
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