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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace Quotes
A little calm goes a long way.
One line looks back at a novel's portrait of a connected, peaceful society, another recalls research pursued away from wartime disruption. For reflective verse in the same spirit, browse our Poems.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just very interested, fascinated, heartbroken, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and our need to find peace on that front... Everyone's always, like, victim and avenger at the same time.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
- Free World
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
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- Nov 07, 2020