International Peace Day Quotes

• Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, Peace, War

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• There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

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• On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Peace, Passion, Priorities

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Song: Imagine, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

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• Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Peace, Military

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.63, Best Books on

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Firsts, Tranquility

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• World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.

  Jeremy Gilley

  Reality, Unity, World

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• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

  Barack Obama

  Peace, Kings, Powerful

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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  Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

  Sallust

  Inspirational, Balance And Harmony, Decay

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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• It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Truth, Yoga

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• You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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• You can't find peace by avoiding life.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

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• There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, Humanity, Waking

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• Imagine all the people living life in peace.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Live Life, Perhaps Love

  Song: Imagine, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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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

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1925). “Young India”

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• As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

  Ed Asner

  Peace, War, What If

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• If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Race, Wish

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Men, World

  "The prayer of Pope Benedict XVI at Ground Zero". www.catholicworldreport.com. September 11, 2015.

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• We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Rivers, Water, Pieces

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