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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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
- Scars
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Israel, you see strong borders as the best way to ensure peace, while in Europe, people see it as a cause of war.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem.
- Emphasize
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020