“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.”
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“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.”
“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.”
“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”
“Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
“The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.”
“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.”
“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.”
“But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.”
“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.”
“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.”
“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”