936 private quotes tagged peace

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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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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”— George Orwell
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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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“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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“Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.”— Nelson Mandela
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“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”— Karl Marx
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“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”— William Shakespeare
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“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”— John Lennon
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“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”— Buddha
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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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“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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“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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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”— George Washington
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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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“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”— Buddha
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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”— George Eliot
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“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”— Buddha
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“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.”— Nelson Mandela
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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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“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.”— Muhammad Ali