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Peace Quotes
"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars."
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"Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos."
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
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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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"Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China."
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"The companion of patience is silence."
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"The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation."
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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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"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
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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 best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom."
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"Peace is a natural effect of trade."
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"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
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"A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active."
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"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
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"We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country."
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"I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity."
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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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"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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"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
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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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"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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"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom 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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"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding."
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