peace
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘peace’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.” -George J. Mitchell
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“The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.” -Chuck Hagel
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“When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am – the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It’s almost like I leave my body and get to watch.” -Michelle Branch
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“Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.” -Richard Cobden
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“We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.” -Anna Lindh
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“Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.” -Gustav Heinemann
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“The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.” -Ted Rall
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“What could become a danger to world peace is Iran’s nuclear program and the country’s open threat to annihilate Israel.” -Sigmar Gabriel
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“I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.” -Norman Granz
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“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.” -Maurice Maeterlinck
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“You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the…
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“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.” -William Beveridge
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“War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we’re very unlikely to accept or recognize ‘world peace’ even when we get it.” -Bruce Sterling
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“We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.” -Charles Foster Bass
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“President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.” -Lee H. Hamilton
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“On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.” -Eric Burdon
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“We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.” -Hamid Karzai
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“The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.” -Walter Ulbricht
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“When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.” -Ann Beattie
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“The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.” -Ed Bradley
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“World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.” -Gifford Pinchot
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“May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.” -Islom Karimov
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“Together, we can create a world in which peace is real in which every human being can thrive in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.” -Abdallah II
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“You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.” -Ulrich Beck
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“God has blessed me. I’ve been given a lot. I’m at peace with myself. It’s time to give back.” -Michael K. Williams
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“I’m just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.” -Sherman Hemsley
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“A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.” -Sivananda
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“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.” -William McKinley
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“You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.” -David Lloyd
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“I’m at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.” -Sean Hannity
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“You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.” -Max Lerner
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“Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.” -James Q. Wilson
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“I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.” -Diego Maradona
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“This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they’ll be peace.” -Olga Korbut
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“Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.” -George Grosz
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“Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.” -Timothy Radcliffe
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“In Hawaii, we have something called Ho’oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.” -Duane Chapman
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“Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East – through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.” -Ron Silver
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“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.” -Robert Indiana
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“Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.” -Suzanne Fields
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“I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.” -Park Geun-hye
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“He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.” -Luciano Pavarotti
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“Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.” -Christopher Love
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“We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.” -Paul Robeson
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“For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.” -Gustav Stresemann
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“With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.” -Theodore C. Sorensen
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“Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.” -Mohammed Morsi
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“I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.” -Lana Del Rey
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“The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.” -Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
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“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!” -Georg Buchner
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“Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.” -Nastassja Kinski
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“Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea – the profound solitude – that does it for me.” -Billy Campbell
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“Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.” -Chen Shui-bian
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“As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.” -Rene Cassin
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“But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they’ve been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it’s come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It’s here.” -Patty Hearst
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“There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.” -Mike Love
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“Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it’s better to prepare for war or instability.” -Timothy Geithner
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“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.” -A. J. Muste
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“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.” -Goran Persson
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“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.” -Saint Isaac of Nineveh
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“Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men’s lives.” -David O. McKay
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“I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.” -Wangari Maathai
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“There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.” -Elihu Root
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“Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.” -Zebulon Pike
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“The Grateful Dead, they’re my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.” -Bill Walton
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“Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that – except for disputes between the present nuclear states – all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.” -Joseph Rotblat
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“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.” -Eisaku Sato
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“United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they’re trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.” -Richard Holbrooke
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“The European Union is the world’s most successful invention for advancing peace.” -John Bruton
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“I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.” -Thurston Moore
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“Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.” -John Boyd Orr
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“Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.” -Ludwig von Mises
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“Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.” -Michael Mandelbaum
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“I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.” -Kenny Marchant
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“To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.” -Pauline Hanson
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“In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps’ Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.” -Solomon Ortiz
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“Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.” -Martin McGuinness
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“Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We’ve seen a society that many people thought couldn’t withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.” -Susan Rice
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“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.” -John McCain
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“Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods – the violent methods – that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.” -Ismail Haniyeh
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“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.” -Jenny Shipley
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“True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.” -Gerrit Smith
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“We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.” -Geraldine Ferraro
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“I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.” -Gunter Grass
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“Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that – given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind – chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.” -Kenichi Fukui
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“For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.” -Karl Liebknecht
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“I will work to bring peace to everyone – whatever economic level – as long as you are Haitian.” -Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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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.” -Jonathan Shapiro
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“But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.” -Omar Bongo
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“But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself – not afraid.” -Robert Falcon Scott
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“Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.” -Tom Lehrer
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“It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.” -Louis Finkelstein
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“The myth of redemptive violence – Caesar, peace, and victory – is in people’s bones so deeply, we aren’t even aware of it. You crush the opposition that’s how we bring peace.” -Rob Bell
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“There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred – by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.” -Helen Thomas
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“I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.” -King George V
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“But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.” -Bryan Ferry
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“When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.” -Richard Gere
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“Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.” -Seamus Heaney
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“One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.” -Baz Luhrmann
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“In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.” -Arthur Keith
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“Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.” -Henry Cabot Lodge
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“The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.” -Ahmed Yassin
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“If anything I consider myself non-violent, I’m from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.” -Rick James
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“You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.” -Naomi Watts
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“I’ve been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn’t bring you peace.” -Michael W. Smith
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“Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike – which is what many are talking about now.” -Imelda Staunton
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“I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.” -Michael Ignatieff
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“Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.” -Xavier Becerra
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“We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.” -Rosie O’Donnell
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“For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.” -Camryn Manheim
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“Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they’d accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.” -Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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“When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.” -Abraham Kuyper
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“In time of peace prepare for war.” -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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“When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.” -Hassan Nasrallah
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“A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.” -Greg Walden
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“I was very active in the peace movement, still am.” -Margot Kidder
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“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.” -Brian Celio
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“Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.” -Lena Horne
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“The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.” -Ludwig Quidde
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“The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful.” -George Wald
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“The old interests of aristocracy – the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war – faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.” -Lytton Strachey
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“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.” -Anthony Burgess
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“Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.” -John Buchan
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“When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.” -Rodney King
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“Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in…
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“We’ve got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.” -Al D’Amato
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“We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don’t we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion – as everyday work.” -Dennis Kucinich
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“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.” -Robert Southey
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“The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It’s a mandate for peace.” -Warren Christopher
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“I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn’t promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.” -Patricia Heaton
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“I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.” -Frank B. Kellogg
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“I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.” -Natan Sharansky
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“My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.” -Brent Scowcroft
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“The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.” -Jim Harrison
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“To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.” -Zbigniew Brzezinski
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“I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.” -Chris O’Donnell
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“The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.” -Emanuel Swedenborg
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“Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.” -James Thomson
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“The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.” -John McCarthy
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“My different personalities leave me in peace now.” -Anna Freud
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“I’ve also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament – it was about 1982 – they called it Peace Sunday.” -Jackson Browne
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“Let’s win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.” -Mike Pence
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“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.” -Ernest Istook
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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.” -Christian Lous Lange
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“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.” -Charles de Secondat
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“Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.” -Fredrik Bajer
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“I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie ‘Meet Me in St. Louis,’ office parties and cookies.” -Mo Rocca
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“I’m at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there’s really nothing else that I worry about.” -Lance Bass
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“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.” -Michelle Bachelet
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“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.” -Eugene O’Neill
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“I’m on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we’ve never been closer.” -Mandy Patinkin
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“It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.” -King Hussein I
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“The purpose of all war is peace.” -Augustine of Hippo
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“Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.” -Darrell Issa
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“You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.” -Judith Light
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“I created the Women’s Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don’t need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.” -Sun Myung Moon
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“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.” -Janeane Garofalo
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“In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.” -Queen Elizabeth II
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“There is something at work that’s bigger than us. It’s about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don’t worry or agonize about the outcome.” -Sherilyn Fenn
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“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.” -Gerry Adams
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“But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.” -Chris Evans
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“War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.” -Andre Malraux
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“The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.” -Conrad Black
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“As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.” -Dan Lipinski
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“The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.” -Carlos Salinas
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“This film ‘Hero’ talks about the peace of Chinese people.” -Jet Li
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“Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.” -Joseph Heller
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“I think that it’s always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.” -Jeane Kirkpatrick
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“Peace without justice is tyranny.” -William Allen White
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“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.” -Lester B. Pearson
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“I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.” -Sargent Shriver
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