Peace Quotes - Page 13

• Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  War, Years, Humanity

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Country, Mistake

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Life, Broken, Understanding

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• The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.

  Hassan II of Morocco

  Inspirational, Kings, Ubuntu

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• I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humanity, Whole, Parcel

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.38, North Atlantic Books

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• What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, War, Heart

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.

  Jean Goss

  Inspirational Love, People, Justice

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• The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

  Karl Marx

  Change, Courage, Philosophy

  Theses on Feuerbach no. 11 (written 1845). This is the epitaph on Marx's tombstone in Highgate Cemetery, London.

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• Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Ubuntu, People, Add

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• War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sweet, War, Havens

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• Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Motivational, Powerful

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• Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

  David Dellinger

  War, Ubuntu, People

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Military, War

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

  Marquis de Sade

  War, Technique, Killers

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• Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

  John Foster Dulles

  Spiritual, War, Winning

  John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”

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• Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Compassion, Ubuntu

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• Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

  Aesop

  Fear, Food, Healing

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.8, Pelekanos Books

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• Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.

  Robert Muller

  Dream, World, Peaceful

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• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Fighting, Loss

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• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

  Cesar Chavez

  Pride, San Francisco, People

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• Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Ubuntu, Community, Firsts

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• Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

  Peter Ustinov

  Money, War, Ubuntu

  "Achtung! Vorurteile". Book by Peter Ustinov, February 10, 2003.

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• We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Kindness, Learning, Unique

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