Peace Quotes - Page 18

• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Reflection, Green World

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• In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Men, People

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• A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, People, Trying

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• We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

  Black Kettle

  Home, Sleep, People

  "The Boy's Book about Indians: Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains". Book by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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• One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

  Robert Breault

  Fire, Understanding, Looks

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• The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

  Tony Snow

  Two, Oil, Snow

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• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Long Ago, Society, Might

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1924, Delphi Classics

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• People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.

  John Ruskin

  People, Heaven, Earth

  John Ruskin (1905). “Selections from Writings”

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• Peace the offspring is of Power.

  Bayard Taylor

  Offspring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.411

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• Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, War

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.100

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• Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Justice, Resistance

  "Peace and the new corporate liberation theology". Arundhati Roy's speech at the Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, sydney.edu.au. November 4, 2004.

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• Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

  Charles Sumner

  Forever, Sound, World

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.123, Library of Alexandria

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• It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
  [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

  Tacitus

  War

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• Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du
  Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

  James Russell Lowell

  Want, Shows, Guts

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.271

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• Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Love, Literature, Nuclear Bomb

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• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, War, Men

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

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• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Military, War, Hippie

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• Effective action is always unjust.

  Maya Angelou

  Unjust, Action

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• The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Change, Success, Leadership

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Strong, Fall

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Music, Work

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc

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• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Hilarious, Women

  "Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

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• Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Freedom, Violence

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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