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 was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.” -Anna Akhmatova
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“I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.” -Anthony Hopkins
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“The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.” -Queen Elizabeth II
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“Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.” -Dmitri Mendeleev
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“Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.” -Daniel Pipes
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“I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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“If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.” -Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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“Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union – to secure peace – has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU,…
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“If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.” -William J. Clinton
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“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.” -John Foster Dulles
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“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” -Wendell Berry
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“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.” -Henry A. Wallace
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“I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war… I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it’s too late.” -Imelda Marcos
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“It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.” -Aneurin Bevan
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“But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I’ll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.” -Cindy Crawford
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“I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn’t know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.” -Herman Cain
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“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Making peace is harder than making war.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.” -Benazir Bhutto
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“What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.” -Bertolt Brecht
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“As long as there is rape… there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.” -Andrea Dworkin
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“I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.” -Willie Nelson
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“Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.” -Mitch Albom
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“What I’m not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.” -Stevie Wonder
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“Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.” -Hiawatha
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“At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.” -Charlize…
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“As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.” -Paul Robeson
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“I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration – everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.” -Jermaine Jackson
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“I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.” -Shimon Peres
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“Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.” -Wyclef Jean
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“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.” -Thomas Hardy
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“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“When you’re young you think that you’re going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.” -Doris Lessing
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“Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.” -Douglas Feith
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“A conqueror is always a lover of peace.” -Karl Von Clausewitz
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“Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.” -Benito Mussolini
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“Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.” -Martin Farquhar Tupper
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“I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.” -Sandra Cisneros
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“Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.” -King Abdullah II
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“Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.” -Ahmed Ben Bella
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“The reason why I’m here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I’m running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is…I want to win a Nobel…
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“Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.” -Oscar Hammerstein II
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“Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.” -Billy Corgan
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“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.” -David O. McKay
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“I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.” -Robert Mugabe
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“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.” -Joseph Conrad
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“I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.” -Jimmy Carter
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“‘Peace Train’ is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.” -Cat Stevens
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“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.” -William Tecumseh Sherman
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“In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.” -Sun Myung Moon
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“I’ll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.” -Paula Deen
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“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.” -Morgan Freeman
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“Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.” -Grover Cleveland
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“The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.” -Lord Chesterfield
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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.” -Thor Heyerdahl
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“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.” -Mary Wortley Montagu
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“I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.” -Martin Scorsese
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“To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.” -Alice Cooper
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“When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there’s a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.” -Ann Coulter
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“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.” -George C. Marshall
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“That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.” -William Feather
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“Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.” -Fred Hampton
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“My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.” -Denzel Washington
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“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.” -Yasser Arafat
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“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.” -John Lubbock
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“I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it’s the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.” -Muhammad Yunus
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“War makes thieves and peace hangs them.” -George Herbert
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“There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” -Ugo Betti
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“Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.” -Lin Yutang
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“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” -Malcom X
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“To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.” -George Ade
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“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.” -Desmond Tutu
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“I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.” -Tobey Maguire
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“It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some…
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“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” -Moshe Dayan
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“Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.” -Armstrong Williams
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“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.” -Linda McCartney
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“As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.” -Thomas Kinkade
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“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.” -Pat Robertson
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“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you’re just fair game.” -Greta Garbo
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“That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.” -Prem Rawat
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“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.” -Andrew Jackson
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“A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.” -Kwame Nkrumah
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“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.” -Tacitus
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“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.” -Margaret Walker
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“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.” -Heraclitus
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“If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees – at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.” -John L. Lewis
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“And I’ve come to the place where I believe that there’s no way to solve these problems, these issues – there’s nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that’s…
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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” -Amelia Earhart
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“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” -Yoko Ono
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“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.” -Alex Noble
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“In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.” -Wangari Maathai
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“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.” -Georges Bernanos
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“My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.” -Ziggy Marley
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“For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.” -George W. Bush
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“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.” -George Santayana
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“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.” -Franklin P. Adams
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“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.” -Chief Joseph
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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” -Thomas Mann
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“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.” -Alfred Adler
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“Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.” -Chen Shui-bian
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“To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There’s peace where there’s order.” -Joe Gold
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“A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.” -Henry Van Dyke
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“Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.” -Wendy Cope
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“Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.” -Marianne Williamson
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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.” -Gerald Jampolsky
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“Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.” -Neil Armstrong
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“He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.” -Moliere
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“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.” -Robert Johnson
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“Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.” -Ovid
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“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.” -Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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“There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one’s home.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“Maybe it’s like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.” -Raul Julia
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“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.” -Etty Hillesum
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“I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.” -Courteney Cox
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“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.” -Elle Macpherson
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“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.” -Harry S. Truman
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“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.” -Pope John XXIII
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“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” -Leon Trotsky
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“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.” -Petrarch
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“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.” -Adam Smith
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“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.” -Matthew Henry
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“Every day I’ve got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know – the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you’d better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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“Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.” -Norman Borlaug
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“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.” -John Paul Jones
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“When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.” -Charles Stanley
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“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“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.” -Gaston Bachelard
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“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” -Honore de Balzac
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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.” -Pythagoras
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“Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.” -Noel Coward
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“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.” -David Sarnoff
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“Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.” -James Russell Lowell
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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” -Joseph Stalin
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“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.” -Gordie Howe
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“There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.” -M. Scott Peck
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“As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.” -Rodney King
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“I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.’” -Elayne Boosler
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“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.” -Colin Powell
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“How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?” -Robert Plant
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“To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.” -Anatole Broyard
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“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.” -John Ruskin
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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.” -Maria Montessori
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“I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness – and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I’m a human trying to make it through in this world.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” -George Harrison
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“Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ’s followers seem to disagree.” -Richard Dawkins
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