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Peace Quotes
"Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace."
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"We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war."
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"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."
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"When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage."
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"Winning the peace is harder than winning the war."
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"In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding."
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"The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace."
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"We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity."
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"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."
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"Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good."
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"I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all."
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"Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time."
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"After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks."
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"We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up."
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"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
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"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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"The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods."
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"Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn't murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn't murder lie; it doesn't establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn't murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn't murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn't solve any problems."
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"Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy."
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"The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given."
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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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"If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace."
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"I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world."
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"The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns."
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"The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers."
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"I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake."
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"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
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