936 private quotes tagged peace

“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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“The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.” — Ed Bradley

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“The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.” — Tony Snow

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“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.” — Dorothy Thompson

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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.” — Jenny Shipley

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“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.” — Sai Baba

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“It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.” — William Hague

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“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” — Aesop

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“The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.” — Bill Walton

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“As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.” — Dan Lipinski

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“Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.” — Natan Sharansky

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“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.” — King Abdullah II

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“Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.” — Corazon Aquino

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“I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.” — Studs Terkel

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“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.” — Natan Sharansky

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“I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.” — Pope Benedict XVI

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“After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.” — John James Audubon

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“It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.” — Arthur Henderson

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“The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.” — Silvia Cartwright

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“If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.” — Gustav Stresemann

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“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.” — Julien Benda

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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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“There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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