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Peace Quotes


"I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others."


"Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings."


"For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade."


"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."


"The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world."


"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."


"I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive."


"Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind."


"There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained."


"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."


"To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations."


"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."


"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."



"The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty."



"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."


"Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both."


"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."


"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."


"I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella."


"Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny."


"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."


"Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents."


"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace."


“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.”



"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."


"It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace."


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


"We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility."


"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
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