936 private quotes tagged peace

“Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein

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“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.” — Albert Einstein

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“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” — Thomas Paine

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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” — George Washington

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“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.” — Napoleon Hill

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“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.” — Martin Luther

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“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” — Karl Marx

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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” — Buddha

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“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.” — Anne Frank

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“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.” — Albert Camus

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“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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