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Peace Quotes
"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."
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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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"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006."
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"They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict."
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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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"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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"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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"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
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"In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva."
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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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"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."
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"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."
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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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"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding."
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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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"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
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"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace."
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"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
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"Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise."
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
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"Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace."
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"As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight."
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"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."
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"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
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"War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that."
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