Peace Quotes - Page 18

• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Reflection, Green World

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• The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

  Nhat Hanh

  Struggle, Essence, Technique

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.39, Parallax Press

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du
  Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

  James Russell Lowell

  Want, Shows, Guts

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.271

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• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

  Graham Greene

  Love, Years, Achievement

  Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). “The third man: a film”, Lorrimer Publishing Ltd.

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• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Volcanoes, Feminism, Experience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.160, Grove Press

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• The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

  Arthur Henderson

  Powerful, Intellectual, Unity

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• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, War, Ubuntu

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• There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

  Rod Serling

  Ubuntu, Prejudice, Records

  The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960

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• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  Abbie Hoffman

  War, Military, Believe

  Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)

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• Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

  Sivananda

  Two, Desire, Reign

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• Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Lying, Principles

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Military, Unfolding

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• It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
  [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

  Tacitus

  War

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• A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, People, Trying

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• Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Love, Literature, Nuclear Bomb

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• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, War, Men

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

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• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Military, War, Hippie

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• Effective action is always unjust.

  Maya Angelou

  Unjust, Action

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• The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Change, Success, Leadership

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Strong, Fall

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• I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

  Sadako Sasaki

  Life, Passion, Writing

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• It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Growth, Way

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• As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Oil, Gold, Purpose

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• Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  World, Spontaneous, Deep Within

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