PEACE QUOTES |
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy |
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa |
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Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace.
- Dalai Lama |
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Winston Churchill |
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln |
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Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
- Thomas Aquinas |
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Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.
- Gerard Vanderhaar |
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All works of love are works of peace.
- Mother Teresa |
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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson |
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza |
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Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer |
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For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
- Petrarch |
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If you want peace, work for justice.
- Pope Paul VI |
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
- Jawaharlal Nehru |
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
- Henry Miller |
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela |
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A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
- Gersonides |
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
- Indira Gandhi |
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis Assisi |
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