Peaceful Country Quotes

• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Horse, Doors

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.142, North Atlantic Books

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• Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

  Henning Mankell

  Girl, Country, Thinking

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• Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.

  George W. Bush

  Country, War, Peaceful

  "Bush: U.S. must think, act differently". George W. Bush's remarks at the news conference in the White House, www.edition.cnn.com. December 19, 2005.

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• The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Memories

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Oliver Twist”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• I want Thailand to be a peaceful country.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Peaceful, Thailand

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• I don't believe that China, in my lifetime or maybe my children's lifetime, be equal to the United States militarily speaking, but they are very careful to avoid any engagement in war, they are basically a peaceful country, which gives them another advantage over the United States when we are much more inclined to go to war for various reasons.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, War

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, War, Government

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.75, 谷月社

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• I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it.

  Michael Kirby

  Country, Motivation, Sibling

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• It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

  Alva Myrdal

  Country, Men, Years

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.

  Harry Browne

  Country, War, Inspiration

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