Peace Quotes - Page 30

• Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Spiritual, Voice

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.10, Penguin

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• I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Interesting, People, Brain

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hurt, Law, Weakness

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• Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

  Max Ehrmann

  Silence, Haste, May

  Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

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• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Freedom, Drinking

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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• If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

  George Carlin

  Eye, World, Killing

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• Peace and love, peace and love!

  Ringo Starr

  And Love, Peace And Love, Fan Mail

  Song: I Wanna Be Your Man, Album: Choose Love, 2005

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• Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Meaningful

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”

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• When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Mean, Want, Be Good

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.268, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Parenting, World

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Victory And Defeat, Ww2

  "Marlborough; his life and times".

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• I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Believe, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Education, Passion, Caring

  Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

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• Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

  Hannah Arendt

  Love, Powerful, Politics

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.242, University of Chicago Press

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• Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

  Hannah Arendt

  Mean, Peculiar, Roles

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Money, Compassion

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• When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Children, Differences, Parent

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• On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Passion, Priorities, Promise

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• Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.

  Menachem Begin

  Family, Mother, Children

  Menachem Begin, Harry Zvi Hurwitz, Yisrael Medad (2011). “Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin - Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence”, p.110, Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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• Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Heart, Humanity

  Daniel Berrigan (2007). “No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.

  Jimmy Carter

  Perseverance, Past, Thinking

  Jimmy Carter (1984). “Negotiation, the Alternative to Hostility”

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• It is easier to make war than to make peace.

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Humanity, Easier

  Speech, Verdun, France, 20 July 1919

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• We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Determination, Humble, Hands

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• We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

  Mary Parker Follett

  War, Opposites, Differences

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• Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Hate, Future, Humanity

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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