936 private quotes tagged peace

“Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.” — David O. McKay

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“The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.” — Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

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“The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.” — Elihu Root

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“Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.” — Nastassja Kinski

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“I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.” — Thurston Moore

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“A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.” — Richard Holbrooke

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“United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.” — Richard Holbrooke

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“Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.” — Elihu Root

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“The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.” — John Bruton

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“The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.” — Elihu Root

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“I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.” — Wangari Maathai

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“Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.” — Paul Robeson

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“Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.” — Billy Campbell

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“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!” — Georg Buchner

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“Give peace a chance.” — Yitzhak Rabin

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“For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.” — Gustav Stresemann

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“Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.” — Chen Shui-bian

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“War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.” — Bruce Sterling

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“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.” — Saint Isaac of Nineveh

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“This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.” — Olga Korbut

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“Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.” — Ron Silver

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“There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.” — Mike Love

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“It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.” — Goran Persson

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“Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.” — Suzanne Fields

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“No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.” — Yitzhak Rabin

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