Peace Quotes
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I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.
Ian Paisley
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The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests.
Samantha Power
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The real reason for his attitude lay deeper. Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation. Behind them were the poorer knights and squires and archers of England, who, unconcerned with rights or wrongs, were 'inclined to war such as had been their livelihood.'
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.
Tawakkol Karman
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Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect.
Federica Mogherini
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Sometimes we try to justify this unsavory business on the cynical ground that by rationing out the means of violence we can somehow control the world’s violence. The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war?
Jimmy Carter
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My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.
Billy Carter
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My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
Fiorello LaGuardia
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My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
Ban Ki-moon
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This means that gravestones are fragile and granite is softer than wax. Absurd, absurd, absurd! From such absurdity I shall soon turn gray or change into another person. Why do you beckon me with your hand? For one moment of peace I would give the peace of the tomb.
Anna Akhmatova
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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
James K. Polk
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller
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First, I wanna say 'peace' to my mother. She's not here but I gotta give a 'peace out' to her because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my mother.
Tupac Shakur
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The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
Elihu Root
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Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
Alec Guinness
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There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.
Wayne Dyer
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I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
Arthur Powell Davies
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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
Wayne Dyer
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...We are in one world. We are one nation. And therefore, what’s common in between us, what should be common among us, is love and peace.
Tawakkol Karman
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Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
Rabindranath Tagore