936 private quotes tagged peace

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

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“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.” — John Lennon

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“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” — Thomas Paine

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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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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin

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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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“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” — Johnny Carson

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“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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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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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” — Amelia Earhart

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“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.” — Fran Lebowitz

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“But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.” — Bryan Ferry

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“Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.” — Deepak Chopra

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“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.” — Thomas Fuller

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“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.” — John Lennon

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“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“All we are saying is give peace a chance.” — John Lennon

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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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