Peace Quotes
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We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
Michael Franti -
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
Charles Eliot Norton
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It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter -
Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
Mohammed Morsi -
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
Will Durant -
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway -
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
Elvis Costello
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I suppose that I am responsible to some degree for Linus’s deciding to put so much of his effort into peace activities. In talking with him, I said I thought that it was of course important that he do his scientific work. But if the world were destroyed, then that work would not be of any value -- so he should take part of his time and devote it to peace work.
Ava Helen Pauling -
All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.
Philip James Bailey -
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
Richard Lamm -
Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.
Elise M. Boulding -
Care for all the animals they need our help Care for all the children stop thinking of ourselves. And if we work together to try for harmony Someday we will live in peace
Country Joe McDonald -
In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone, and with our families gathered around us, with gratitude for the blessings of life, for understanding of its problems, and for strength to endure to the end.
Heber J. Grant
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
Studs Terkel -
You can't hurt me, I found peace within myself.
Michael Jackson -
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
David C. Coates -
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
Mother Teresa -
One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.
Cornell Capa -
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.
Stephen Ambrose
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa -
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Rather happiness, peace or serenity is our natural state. Beneath all of what we add to our feelings and experience, beneath our self-contraction, lies serenity Itself.
Charles L. Whitfield -
I carry in my right hand war, and peace in my left... Here is a bloody belt and a white one. Take which you please.
George Rogers Clark