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• Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Smile, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

  Martin Luther

  Peace, Tree, World

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• Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Peace, Fighting, Diversity

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• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Memories, Jewels, Surfing

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

  Basil O'Connor

  Peace, War, Intellectual

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• We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

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• To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Wicked

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.130, Penguin

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• The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Peace, Rights, People

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• There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

  Karen Nussbaum

  Peace, Real, Fighting

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• It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Faith, Peace, Rocks

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

  Margaret Mead

  Peace, Wall, Intelligent

  "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views". Book edited by Rhoda Metraux, 1963.

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• They make a desert and call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Desert, Global Issues

  Agricola ch. 30. These are allegedly Calgacus's words at the battle of the Grampians.

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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

  Peace, War, Believe

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• If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

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• A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Equality, Destiny

  Barbara Jordan (1999). “Barbara C. Jordan--selected Speeches”

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• There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

  Marianne Moore

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, People

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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, Justice

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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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, Peace, Father

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• We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.

  Linus Pauling

  Peace, War, Winning

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• Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Peace, People, Add

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• One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Heart, Winning

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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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, Peace, Hate

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• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Funny, Peace, Knives

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• Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

  Denise Levertov

  Peace, War, Mind

  Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.155, New Directions Publishing

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