Peace Quotes - Page 35

• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Integrity, Memorable

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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• We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take the time to pray with Jesus, we too will be converted in mind and heart. It won�t work if we try to reason it out. The only way is through a change of heart, a coming into a way of being that is the way of Jesus.

  Thomas Gumbleton

  Jesus, Heart, Commitment

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• Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Giving, World

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1329, Aum Publications

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• Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

  Ida Tarbell

  Sports, War, Ubuntu

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• Ah, when shall all men's good
  Be each man's rule, and universal peace
  Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
  And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
  Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Men, Light

  'The Golden Year' (1846) l. 47

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• There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Time, Heart, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Mar 03, 2014

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• The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Humanity, World

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• Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Affirmation, Passive, Negation

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• It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

  Carl Sagan

  Fall, Winning, Humanity

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• Peace will be victorious.

  Yitzhak Rabin

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• The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

  James Madison

  War, Passion, Ambition

  "The Cost of America's Secret Wars, Then and Now" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

  Kofi Annan

  Names, Defense, Building

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 05, 2016

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• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Dignity, Conflict

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Science, Technology, Made Up Stories

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press

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• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Religious, Voice, Justice

  Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.

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• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  War, Empires, Wilderness

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• Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Money, Kindness

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

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• In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spring, Rain, Mean

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• To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Aikido, Opponents

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.96, Shambhala Publications

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• Power to the peaceful!

  Michael Franti

  Love, Peaceful

  Song: Bomb the World, Album: Everyone Deserves Music

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• Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Hope, Positivity

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• Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Ubuntu, Doe

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• This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

  John Knowles

  Men, Years, Childhood

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

  Jim Wallis

  Life, Jesus, Blessed

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