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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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• By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Government, Order, Race

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Tree, Humanity

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• Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Strong, War, Struggle

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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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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• War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

  Chris Hedges

  Betrayal, War, Soldier

  Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

  James Agee

  Life, Children, Responsibility

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

  Stockard Channing

  Ideas, Humanity, World

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• The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  Military, Struggle, Humanity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

  Carter Heyward

  Blessing, Creating, Empowering

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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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• 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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