Will Durant Quotes
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
Quotes to Explore
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Peace is its own reward.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
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When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
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There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.
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The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'
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There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
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The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
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We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.
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Harry Dresden: A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
