Peace Quotes - Page 17

• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Volcanoes, Feminism, Experience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.160, Grove Press

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• The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

  Arthur Henderson

  Powerful, Intellectual, Unity

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• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  Abbie Hoffman

  War, Military, Believe

  Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)

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• Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Power, Ubuntu, Hands

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• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Nature, Attitude

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humor, Vaccines, Recognition

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

  Margaret Mead

  Two, Bathroom, Capacity

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Ubuntu

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• Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

  Robin Morgan

  Knowledge, Humility, Information Is Power

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Ubuntu, Hands

  "The Women’s Deliberation Movement" by Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Strength, Strong

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, War, Ubuntu

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• There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

  Rod Serling

  Ubuntu, Prejudice, Records

  The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Brother, War, Hippie

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

  Sivananda

  Two, Desire, Reign

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• A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Historical, Excuse

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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• Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Lying, Principles

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

  Stendhal

  Leadership, Motivation, War

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• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Serj Tankian

  War, Ubuntu, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Military, Unfolding

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Crazy, War, Humor

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Finding The One, Creating

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.366

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• The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

  Nhat Hanh

  Struggle, Essence, Technique

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.39, Parallax Press

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