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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."
55
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
53
"It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces."
53
"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."
53
"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
53
"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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"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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"The companion of patience is silence."
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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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"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."
50
"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars."
49
"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."
49
"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
48
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
48
"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?"
48
"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
48
"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."
48
"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."
48
"In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans."
47
"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
47
"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."
47
"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."
47
"To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone."
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"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
47
"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
47
"Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq."
46
"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."
46
"The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it."
46
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."
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