Ubuntu Quotes - Page 6

• To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.

  Pope Paul VI

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1980*). “On the development of peoples”

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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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• 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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• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Peace, Children

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• In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Peace, Evil, Soul

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.72

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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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• If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Peace, Rate, Agree

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Men, Rights

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• There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  Ida Tarbell

  Leadership, Peace, Truth

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• The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

  Ida Tarbell

  Peace, War, Mean

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• When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Children, War

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• You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Stress, Hands

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• Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer Chef as part of the Ubuntu distribution and to deliver easy bare metal provisioning with MAAS and Chef.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Deployment, Maa, Serious

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• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Rome

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• War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

  Susan Sontag

  Peace, War, Eye

  "Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors".

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• You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Peace, Perfection

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• When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Inspirational, Peace, Past

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• [T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, Peace, War

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• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  Walter Wink

  Country, Peace, Real

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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, Peace, Heart

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

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• Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Community, Firsts

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• One more such victory and we are undone.

  Pyrrhus of Epirus

  Peace, War, Victory

  Quoted in Plutarch, Parallel Lives

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• Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

  Harold MacMillan

  Peace, War, Humorous

  "Jaw-jaw is better than war-war" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2015.

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• Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Men, Doe

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• Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

  Pindar

  Peace, Light, Anvils

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