936 private quotes tagged peace

“Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.” — Imelda Staunton

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“I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.” — George McGovern

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“Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.” — King Abdullah II

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“The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.” — Sargent Shriver

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“For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.” — Karl Liebknecht

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“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.” — Gertrude Stein

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“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” — George W. Bush

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“Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.” — Morgan Freeman

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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.” — Jimmy Carter

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“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” — Anton Chekhov

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“A conqueror is always a lover of peace.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“Don't tell me peace has broken out.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” — Honore de Balzac

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“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.” — Robert Southey

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“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.” — Stevie Wonder

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“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.” — Mitch Albom

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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.” — Pythagoras

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“Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“The purpose of all wars, is peace.” — Saint Augustine

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“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.” — Joseph Conrad

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“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.” — Shirley MacLaine

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