Peace Quotes - Page 29

• There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" by Black Elk, 1953.

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• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, War, Knowing

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

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• There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, 4th Of July, Violence And War

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Work, Ubuntu, Achievement

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• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

  Maria Montessori

  War, Educational, Ubuntu

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

  Dorothy Thompson

  War, Ubuntu, Creative

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• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

  Aesop

  War, Tyrants, Political

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

  Isabel Allende

  People, Eras, Violent

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.58, University of Texas Press

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• The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Bible, Religious, Men

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• I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Encouraging, Ubuntu

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• Peace without justice is an impossibility.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Impossibility

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76

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• When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

  Alan Alda

  Happiness, Laughter, Humorous

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• God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

  Jean Anouilh

  Army, Analysis, Lasts

  L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) p. 120

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• It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

  Corazon Aquino

  Light, Cells, Political

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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Emo, Character

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.

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• What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

  Nick Lowe

  Understanding, Tolerance, Peace Love

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. September 12, 2011.

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• True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Names, People

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Courage, Integrity, Women

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Believe, Frustration, Way

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.112, Wizards of the Coast

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• I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Prayer, Godly

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• Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspiring, Diversity, Grace

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Community, Society

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.365, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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