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Peace Quotes
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
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"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the 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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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."
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"The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation."
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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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"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
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"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace."
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"Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety."
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"The quiet times are the ones to hold on to."
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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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"When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'"
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"There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace."
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"In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program."
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"We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth."
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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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"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
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"Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise."
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"The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle."
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"A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all."
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"The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?"
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"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."
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"Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality."
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"The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world."
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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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"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."
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"We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom."
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"The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany."
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