Making Peace Quotes - Page 2

• War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

  Thomas Hardy

  Peace, War, Reading

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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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• 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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• 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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• Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

  Gerry Adams

  Peace, War, Humanity

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• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Inspiration, Humanity

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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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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• You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

  Robert Fulghum

  Peace, Coping Mechanisms, Wish

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.131, Ballantine Books

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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 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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• 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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  If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Friendship, Peace

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• Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

  Ajahn Chah

  Peace, Heart, Turtles

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• I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

  John Lennon

  Teamwork, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• All we are saying is give peace a chance.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Light, Giving

  1969 Song (with his wife,Yoko Ono), used widely in protests against the Vietnam War.

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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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• Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Struggle, Creativity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.133, Beacon Press

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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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• 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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• We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Spiritual, Peace

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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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• You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

  Shimon Peres

  Peace, Ubuntu, Enemy

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