936 private quotes tagged peace

“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” — Woody Allen

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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” — Victor Hugo

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“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” — Dalai Lama

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“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” — Dalai Lama

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“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” — Johnny Carson

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“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.” — John Lennon

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“But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.” — Bryan Ferry

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“Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.” — Deepak Chopra

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“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.” — John Lennon

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“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.” — Nelson Mandela

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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“All we are saying is give peace a chance.” — John Lennon

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“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” — John Lennon

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“That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.” — William Feather

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