- Faith
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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.
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- Extinction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
- Prepare
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not so much of a person for causes, unless I specifically - for instance, if it's my cause, or some poor people's, I'll try to help. But you won't find me playing for any peace candidates - or any candidates.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.
- Greater Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'
- Exerted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was a super hero, I'd want to be the man of peace so that I could click my fingers and the world would be at peace.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Israelis and the Palestinians don't know each other. They live right there, but they've become strangers. And it makes it much more difficult to make peace with a person you really don't know, and that's an obstacle in itself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020