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Peace Quotes


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


"The first thing I see is the obligation to serve 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."


"Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible."


"We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace."


"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice."


"One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security."


"This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity."


"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."


"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."


"The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given."


"I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world."


"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."


"Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing."


"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 am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged."


"He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure."


"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction."


"I want to be a ripple in the infinite ocean of love."


"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions."


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


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


"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."


"I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement."


"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."


"It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved."


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


"Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?"
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