Achieving Peace Quotes - Page 4

• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Veterans Day, Peace, Children

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Peace

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Evil, Nuclear Missiles

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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• From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Names, People

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

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• Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, War, Serenity

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• War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

  A. J. Muste

  War, Outcomes, Way

  "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

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• I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Music, Peace, Military

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• I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Believe

  Broadcast discussion, 31 Aug. 1959

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• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

  Maria Montessori

  Peace, War, Educational

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• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

  Kin Hubbard

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.139, Indiana University Press

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• Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

  Etty Hillesum

  Peace, World, Moral

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Smile, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

  Andre Gide

  Leadership, Patience, Peace

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• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Children, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Real, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" by Black Elk, 1953.

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• I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The best chance for achieving peace and prosperity, for the maximum number of people worldwide, is to pursue the cause of liberty. If you find this to be a worthwhile message, spread it throughout the land.

  Ron Paul

  Years, Land, Maximum Number

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Way, Remember, Achieve

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• It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

  Walter Cronkite

  Military, Lying, Safety

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• We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in the South Caucasus. With this vision, we have agreed to move forward without any preconditions, not making our relations contingent upon Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, if, as many suspect, it is proven that Turkey's goal is to protract, rather than to normalize relations, we will have to discontinue the process.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Moving, Turkeys, Goal

  Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, February 10, 2010.

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• It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

  Karl Popper

  Simple, Nihilism, Atoms

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• One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world.

  Sami Al-Arian

  Freedom, Thinking, Our World

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• Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Simple, Diversity

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