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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
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first began learning yoga, I found it really hard because I couldn't clear my mind for the meditative part of it, but then after a few weeks it became easier and I could see how it began to change my body. I became more flexible and more relaxed and at peace with my environment. I love yoga and I encourage all my friends to practise it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
While managing a career and family leaves, some parents feeling guilty and frazzled; others seem to be able to effortlessly balance parenthood with full-time work. Parents who are able to raise well-adjusted children while also maintaining a career make sacrifices to keep the peace.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, Britain expected that America would soon lose heart and surrender, too. From then on, London's chief aims were to bring a swift conclusion to the war and capture as much territory as possible in order to gain the best advantage in the inevitable peace talks.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020