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An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings ...

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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...

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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'...

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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice mu...

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It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

And because the condition of man . . . is a condition of war of every one against every one, in whic...

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Peace and rest at length have comeAll the day's long toil is past,And each heart is whispering, 'Hom...

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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue...

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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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Thomas MannThis I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of One Hundred Thoughtful Men and Women

To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many d...

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism tha...

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Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on va...

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Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own s...

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Thomas MertonNew Seeds of Contemplation

I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed see...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the ...

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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither abilit...

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in pe...

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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

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Thomas PynchonGravity's Rainbow

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes...

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Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic ...

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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concre...

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But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're ...

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Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos ...

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Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do...

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Tom RobbinsFierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, cons...

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Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent ...

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Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The rav...

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Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased w...

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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...

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On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has ...

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Ursula K. Le GuinFour Ways to Forgiveness

Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are d...

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The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as ci...

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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, h...

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A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."His Mother says: "Why did you figh...

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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighbo...

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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner tabl...

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds openin...

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its p...

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

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Victor HugoThe Toilers of the Sea

There is peace even in the storm

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Vincent van GoghThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides...

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The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let...

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I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of mo...

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This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal...

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We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only ...

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Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,...

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This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Te...

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I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and i...

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It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is...

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The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by...

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In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety t...

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There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The li...

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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are...

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Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...

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I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive...

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[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

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[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose...

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Peace is always beautiful.

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must str...

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After the Guam conference ended, it was reported that Pope Gregory ceased to pray for peace in the w...

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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to...

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To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that...

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Washington IrvingThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...

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I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into...

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Wendell BerryThe Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least s...

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Wendell BerryThe Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make t...

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When we believe that God is Father we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his c...

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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, whil...

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William CowperThe Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper

Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...

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Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...

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Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...

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Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...

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That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East...

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.