- Fighter
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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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
- Francis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
- Exalted
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
- Nov 07, 2020
To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything.
- Great Extent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
- Eternal Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
- Maintenance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020