Peace Quotes - Page 23

• If you want peace, work for justice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Wisdom, Truth, Justice Equality

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Ubuntu, Long, Simple Living

  "The Medium is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

  Frank Borman

  Moon, Ubuntu, Differences

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• There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook,
  peace of mind and inner happiness

  Edward Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Don't live worried, frustrated or upset because of what somebody did or what didn't work out. Come back to a place of peace. It's not going to work against you; it's going to work for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Work

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• You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He should indeed require no more of you--than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Justice, May

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

  Barack Obama

  War, Believe, Path

  Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel, Jerusalem International Convention Center, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 21, 2013.

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• A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

  Henry Van Dyke

  War, Depends

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• How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Passion, Temptation, Soul

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.115, Lulu.com

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• One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Art, Money

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• Peace is its own reward.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Rewards, Non Violence

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• Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Strength, Differences, Diversity

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• The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Victory, Sides

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• Peace is produced by war.

  Pierre Corneille

  War

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• Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

  Germaine Greer

  Diversity, Culture, Festivals

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Military, War

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

  Voltaire

  War, Ubuntu, Wicked

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.130, Penguin

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• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspiration, Losing A Loved One, Angel

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Veterans Day, Children, War

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

  Joan Baez

  Death, Military, War

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Fighting, Two

  "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Fighting, People

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• A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, War, Son

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

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• War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sweet, War

  Desiderius Erasmus (1962). “Handbook of the Militant Christian”

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• We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teamwork, Team Building, Unity

  To John Hancock, at the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776

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