Peace Quotes
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Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244
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When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'
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Of course some wars may have been necessary or inevitable, but none was ever regarded as holy. For us, a holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. The Talmud says, 'Talmidei hukhamim marbin shalom baolam' (It is the wise men who will bring about peace). Perhaps, because wise men remember best.
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'I have no wish to argue, Father. Yet it must be said that the monks exist here in peace and security only because of the swords of the defenders. I do not belittle your views — I wish all men shared them. But they do not. ... if all men and women lived as you and I, there would be no children, and no humanity. What then would be the Will of the Source?'
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Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty.
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The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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With Singapore's partnership, the United States in engaging more deeply across South-east Asia and Asean, which is central to the region's peace and prosperity. Singapore is an anchor for the US presence in the region, which is a foundation of stability and peace.
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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
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The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.
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...the inglorious arts of peace...
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Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
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Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.
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I say peace begins on your plate.
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France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
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I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.
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And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet,Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
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It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
