936 private quotes tagged peace

“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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“Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein

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“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.” — Albert Einstein

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“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” — George Washington

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“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.” — Harry S. Truman

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“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.” — Martin Luther

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“That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.” — William Feather

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“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” — Karl Marx

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“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” — Buddha

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“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.” — William Shakespeare

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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.” — Nelson Mandela

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“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.” — Anne Frank

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“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.” — Albert Camus

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“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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