936 private quotes tagged peace

“The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.” — Nikita Khrushchev

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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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“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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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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“May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.” — Islom Karimov

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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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“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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“I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

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“The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.” — Desmond Tutu

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“If you want peace work for justice.” — Pope Paul VI

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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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“There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.” — Richard Holbrooke

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“In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.” — Desmond Tutu

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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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“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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“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.” — Benito Mussolini

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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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“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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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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“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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“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.” — Louis Farrakhan

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“On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.” — Charles Wilson

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