Peace Quotes
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As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.
James Freeman Clarke
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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
Fredrik Bajer
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I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.
Albert Reynolds
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Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
Bernard Membe
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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
Ben Carson
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There is violence and injustice in our world that must be confronted. We must confront it not by splitting apart but by standing together as free nations, as free people. I know that a call to arms can stir the souls of men and women more than a call to lay them down. But that is why the voices for peace and progress must be raised together.
Barack Obama
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Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.
Franz Kafka
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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.
Alva Myrdal
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The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
Kenzaburo Oe
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There are lots of signs that average Israelis want peace. But after such a long war - this conflict has been going on now for 120 years - you have a fifth generation being born into it on both sides. Such a conflict creates hatred, fears, stereotypes, and demonizations of the other. It would be an illusion to believe you can put an end to this overnight.
Uri Avnery
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Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
Meir Kahane
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When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
Janeane Garofalo
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I have inner peace. It's a different person.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.
David Horowitz
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If thou couldst trust, poor soul!In Him who rules the whole,Thou wouldst find peace and rest;Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
Tariq Ramadan
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
James Wolfe
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All works of love are works of peace.
Mother Teresa
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I declare that I will establish peace in this world.
Prem Rawat
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
James Thomson
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If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace.
Dalai Lama
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The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
Edgar Quinet
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And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet,Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
John Milton