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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nat...

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Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the wea...

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If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the ...

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More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons ...

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war -...

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When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action ...

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I ...

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most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by...

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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 sh...

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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear a...

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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion...

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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, ...

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Live simply so others may simply live

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Mahatma GandhiPeace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... thei...

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People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the wo...

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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You ...

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read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that ...

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But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly label...

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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgi...

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The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only...

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Marianne WilliamsonThe Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because pea...

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Mark KurlanskyNonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should ha...

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I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility ...

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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come wha...

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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoi...

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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able...

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We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we a...

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We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the H...

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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism a...

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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ca...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

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Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in whic...

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The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in t...

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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing...

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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousa...

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Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can neve...

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GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruel...

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa...

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When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall g...

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On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each o...

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Maya AngelouCelebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the...

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Maya AngelouWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of a...

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The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I...

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It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before....

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Michael EndeThe Neverending Story

You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the ti...

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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of...

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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really beli...

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Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hat...

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We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make...

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Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ...

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ...

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How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I ...

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There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't h...

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He won’t stop the war until you give him the peace prize.

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Mohammed HanifA Case of Exploding Mangoes

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests w...

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When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always en...

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The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate wit...

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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right w...

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