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Peace

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Kempis, Thomas

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis