“We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.”
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“Capitalism is war socialism is peace.”
“Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.”
“Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.”
“I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.”
“It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.”
“Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.”
“We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.”
“Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.”
“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.”
“I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.”
“In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.”
“The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.”
“I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.”
“War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.”
“The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.”
“I really love peace and quiet.”
“It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.”
“The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.”
“I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.”
“Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.”
“Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.”
“This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.”
“Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.”