Peace Quotes - Page 39

• Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

  Martin Luther

  Memorial Day, Ubuntu, Justice

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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• The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Religious, Ubuntu, True Identity

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• Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

  Ajahn Chah

  Heart, Turtles, Mustache

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• Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Passion, World, Impossible

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Science

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.

  Cesar Chavez

  Powerful, Differences, Ideas

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• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

  Kin Hubbard

  War, Ubuntu, Victory

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.139, Indiana University Press

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• The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

  Joan Baez

  Strong, Men, Feet

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  World

  UN Press Release SG/360, December 22, 1953.

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  Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.216, Hay House, Inc

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• One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Passion

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• First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Firsts, Tranquility, Finding Peace

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• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Patriotism, Suffering

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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  If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• Peace is the only battle worth waging.

  Albert Camus

  Humanity, Battle, Being At Peace

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• There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Truth

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• Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crazy, Passion, Heart

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Truth, Lying

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

  Alfred Adler

  War, Ubuntu, Path

  Alfred Adler (2005). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1931-1937”, p.128, Alfred Adler Institute

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• Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

  Corazon Aquino

  Justice For All, Diversity, Principles

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• The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Home, School, Quests

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Patriotic, Men

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• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Heart, Brain

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