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  • If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.

    Peace   Children   Real  
    Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.112, Parallax Press
  • War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

    "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.
  • Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

    Education   Peace   Money  
    Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers
  • As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

    Peace   Ideas   Self  
  • All government wars are unjust.

    Peace   War   Government  
    As quoted in an interview in "Reason" Magazine, February 1973.
  • Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
    George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.
  • To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

    Love   Peace   Giving  
    "Fragment of a Speech" ca. 18 May 1858.
  • All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

  • To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

    Peace   War   Men  
  • If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

    Love   Peace   Eras  
  • Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

    Peace   Past   Men  
  • Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

    Love   Peace   Share  
    Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”
  • I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

    Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam
  • War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

    Peace   Real   War  
  • Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

    Peace   Men   Echoes  
    Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.
  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
  • We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

    "Gandhi on Non-Violence".
  • War is a defeat for humanity.

    Peace   War   Humanity  
    Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.
  • Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

    Peace   Evil   Would Be  
    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light.

    God   Faith   Religious  
  • As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

    Life   Peace   Simple  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby
  • Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

  • Over all the mountain tops is peace.

    'Wanderers Nachtlied' (1821)
  • As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

    Peace   Oil   Gold  
  • Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

    Peace   War   Anxiety  
  • Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

    "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)
  • Peace for the whole world begins with a smile in your own heart.

    Peace   Heart   World  
  • Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

    Peace   War   Torches  
    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

    Peace   War   Army  
    Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press
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