936 private quotes tagged peace

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.” — Nelson Mandela

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“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” — Thomas Mann

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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” — Buddha

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“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” — Martin Luther

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“On all the peaks lies peace.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.” — Lao Tzu

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“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” — John F. Kennedy

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“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Peace is its own reward.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm

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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” — Woody Allen

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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” — Winston Churchill

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“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” — Dalai Lama

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“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” — Dalai Lama

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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” — Victor Hugo

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