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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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"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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"Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos."
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"In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world."
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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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"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars."
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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 companion of patience is silence."
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"Peace is a natural effect of trade."
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"As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?"
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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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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
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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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"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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"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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"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
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"The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation."
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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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"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
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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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"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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"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."
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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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"The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds, minds that are torturing themselves. For them, peace is a big commodity that they have to seek. If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? Would you seek the exuberance of life or would you seek peace? Only if you have become an expert in self-torture, peace seems to be the greatest thing."
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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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"Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise."
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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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"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
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