World Peace Day Quotes

• You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.

  Jeremy Gilley

  Reality, Unity, World

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• You can't find peace by avoiding life.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

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• There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, Humanity, Waking

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• Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

  Amit Ray

  War, Men, Brave

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.39, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Men, World

  "The prayer of Pope Benedict XVI at Ground Zero". www.catholicworldreport.com. September 11, 2015.

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• Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, People, Serenity

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• Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, War, Serenity

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• Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Respect, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

  Ed Asner

  Peace, War, What If

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• We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Being Alone, Acceptance, Ready

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Soul, Facts

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• Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.

  Menachem Begin

  Family, Mother, Peace

  Menachem Begin, Harry Zvi Hurwitz, Yisrael Medad (2011). “Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin - Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence”, p.110, Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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• We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Rivers, Water, Pieces

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• What if they gave a war and nobody came?

  Carl Sandburg

  War, What If, International Peace

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• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Karma, Wise

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• World peace must develop from inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Inner Peace, World, Human Compassion

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• Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3610, e-artnow

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• Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, War, May

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• I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Justice, Lasting

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Presidential

  "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.

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