936 private quotes tagged peace

“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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“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” — John Wooden

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“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” — John F. Kennedy

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“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” — Nelson Mandela

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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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“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” — Buddha

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“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The only peace is being out of earshot.” — Mason Cooley

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“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.” — John Lennon

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“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.” — John Lennon

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“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” — André Gide

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“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” — William Shakespeare

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“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” — Graham Greene

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“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

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