Peace Quotes - Page 12

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Mean, Liberty

  Democracy in America vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 22 (1840) (translation by Henry Reeve)

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• If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

  Bernard Baruch

  Past, Years, Doe

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• War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Presidential, Today

  "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.

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• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lying, Commitment, Discipline

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• People always make war when they say they love peace.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, War, People

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.492, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

  George C. Marshall

  Christmas, Men, Idaho

  Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army, September 1, 1945.

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• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Baby, War, Political

  'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

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• Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

  Petrarch

  Forgiveness, Anger, Ambition

  "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.

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• The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!

  Jonathan Larson

  War, Opposites, Creation

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• nothing is impossible

  Walt Disney

  Happiness, Inspiring, Moving On

  Walt Disney (1988). “The jungle book”, p.17, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

  Martin Amis

  Military, Taken, Gun

  Martin Amis (2010). “Einstein's Monsters”, p.14, Random House

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• The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

  Vera Brittain

  War, Healing, Helping Others

  Vera Brittain (1964). “The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers”, London : G. Allen & Unwin

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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Norman Cousins

  War, Ubuntu, Justice

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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• We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Race, Arms, Arms Race

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.214, Beacon Press

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• Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Odds, Justice, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• There can be no peace without law.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Law, Humanity, Peacemaking

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• If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.

  Chan Khong

  Morning, Ubuntu, People

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• It Is possible to live in peace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Passion, Inner Peace

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• Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

  Sydney J. Harris

  War, Nuclear, Impossible

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• Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, People, Joy

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

  William James

  Success, Honesty, Integrity

  "Pete Seeger’s Last War" by David Hajdu, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

  Karl Marx

  Change, Courage, Philosophy

  Theses on Feuerbach no. 11 (written 1845). This is the epitaph on Marx's tombstone in Highgate Cemetery, London.

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