Peace Quotes - Page 13

• It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Faith, Ubuntu, Rocks

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.15, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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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• To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

  Virginia Woolf

  Looks, Lasts, Faces

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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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• I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Faith

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

  Bill Watterson

  War, Play, Role Models

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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  I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Life, Positive, Death

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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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• Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Invention, Anti War

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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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• To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.

  Ralph Bunche

  War, Believe, Ubuntu

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph J. Bunche - Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Century, Disgusting

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• Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Hurt, Brutality, Violence

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• We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

  Cesar Chavez

  Powerful, War, Struggle

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

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sweet, War, Havens

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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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• 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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• 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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