Peace Quotes - Page 38

• Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.

  Francois Fenelon

  Pain, Spring, Soul

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• War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

  Alfred Adler

  War, Mean, Men

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• Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, War, Ubuntu

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• There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

  Ralph Bunche

  War, Ubuntu, People

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• No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

  Croesus

  Motivational, Father, War

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• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  W. L. George

  Hate, Military, War

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• The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Hurt, Men, Ubuntu

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• I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

  Gene La Rocque

  Country, Hate, Military

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• I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

  John Frederick Maurice

  War, Believe, Army

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• If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace."

  Spark Matsunaga

  Courage, America, People

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• War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

  Lewis Mumford

  War, Ubuntu, Effort

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

  Basil O'Connor

  War, Ubuntu, Intellectual

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• Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

  Rajneesh

  War, Ubuntu, People

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• Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

  Oscar Arias

  Soul, Facts, International Peace

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• Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Attitude, Differences

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• If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Understanding, Together, Knows

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• Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

  Baudouin of Belgium

  War, Men, Ubuntu

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• The life of "peace" is both an inner journey toward a disarmed heart and a public journey toward a disarmed world. This difficult but beautiful journey gives infinite meaning and fulfillment to life itself because our lives become a gift for the whole human race. With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense.

  John Dear

  Beautiful, Heart, Journey

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.223, Image

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• If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

  Sophie Kerr

  War, Ubuntu, Pageantry

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, War

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• The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

  William C. Bryant

  Dream, Morning, Agony

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• Would you end war? Create great Peace.

  James Oppenheim

  War, Ends

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Years, Break, Minutes

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Bertrand Russell, Dora Russell (1959). “The Prospects of Industrial Civilization”, p.216, Psychology Press

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