Peace Quotes

• The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Serenity, Earth

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• To reach peace, teach peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Teach

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

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• If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

  Marvin Gaye

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Passion

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• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Money, War

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, War

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• If there is to be peace in the world,
  There must be peace in the nations.
  If there is to be peace in the nations,
  There must be peace in the cities.
  If there is to be peace in the cities,
  There must be peace between neighbors.
  If there is to be peace between neighbors,
  There must be peace in the home.
  If there is to be peace in the home,
  There must be peace in the heart.

  Laozi

  Home, Heart, Cities

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• If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Humanity, Half, Taught

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.

  Harry S. Truman

  Goal, Tyranny, All Time

  "The Quotable Harry S. Truman".

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• If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• "There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."

  Albert Einstein

  Age, Way, Resolution

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• Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Education, Spiritual

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• Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Justice, Catholic, Humanity

  THOMAS AQUINAS (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Science, Men

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Humanity, Advancement, Starting

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• We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  War, Military, Anger

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, (p. 156), 1992.

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  The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Gun, Bombs

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

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• Peace is our gift to each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Humanity, Peaceful

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• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

  William E. Gladstone

  Love, Life, Time

  Attributed to Gladstone in The National Elementary Principal, Volume 28, 1948.

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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

  World, Moral, Duty

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

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