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• Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Struggle, Race

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• Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Humanity, Nuclear

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

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• If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Names

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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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• The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Simple, Law

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.248, Penguin UK

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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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• Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Passing Away

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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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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• Accurst be he that first invented war.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Peace, War, Firsts

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 4

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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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• All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

  Karl Marx

  Peace, Practice, Mysterious

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• Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

  Colman McCarthy

  Peace, War, Problem

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• The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

  Colman McCarthy

  Peace, Stars, Struggle

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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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• 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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• Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

  Robin Morgan

  Inspirational, Peace, Impossible

  Robin Morgan (2016). “Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.

  Toni Morrison

  Peace, War, Reading

  Toni Morrison (2007). “The Dancing Mind”, p.6, Vintage

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Effort

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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