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Peace Quotes


"There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way."


"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."


"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."


"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman."


"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved."


"We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens."


"In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding."


"The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction."


"Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world."



"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."


"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."


"There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind."


"To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone."


"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."


"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?"


"These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations."


"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."


"The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance."


"If we find ourselves in unfamiliar circumstance, what do we do? We ought to keep calm and pray."


"6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:1. Stop stressing. 2. Stop worrying. 3. Give rest to the problems weighing you down. 4. Lighten up. 5. Forgive yourself. 6. Forgive others."


"Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace."


"Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace."


"As satyagrahis we should always claim and we did that we are always ready to make peace with our adversaries. As a matter of fact we are always eager for peace and when we found that the door to peace was opened we decided to enter it."


"And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important."


"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."


"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."
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