Make Peace Not War Quotes

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Real, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• We make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  Strength, Veterans Day, Peace

  Nicomachean Ethics bk. 10, 1177b See Vegetius 1

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• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Mean

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Science

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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  Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Peace, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Taken

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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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• We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Peace, Heart

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, War

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.68, Beacon Press

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Government

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• 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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  If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Peace, Elephants

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014

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• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, Freedom, War

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

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• The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Equality, Mutual Help

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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... inside ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Realizing

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Memorial Day, Peace

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

  Robert Fulghum

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Peace

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• [T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, Peace, War

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