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Peace Quotes
"I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders."
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"Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference."
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"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
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"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
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"There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans."
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"The companion of patience is silence."
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"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."
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"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars."
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"I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace."
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"If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education."
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"Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy."
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"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."
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"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."
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"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."
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"The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof."
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"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
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"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
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"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
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"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
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"We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come."
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"I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war."
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"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
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"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
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"The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it."
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"They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict."
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"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
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"Many people have the confused idea that peace will happen when all the colors in the palette are the same. The actuality of peace is accepting each color's differences and seeing the beauty each possesses."
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"Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well."
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"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."
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“Within a world of free trade and democracy, there are no incentives for war and conquest. In such a world, it is of no concern whether a nation's sovereignty stretches over a larger or smaller territory. Its citizens cannot derive any advantage from the annexation of a province. If territorial problems can be treated without bias and passion, it is not painful to be fair to other people's claims for self-determination.”
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"To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone."
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