Peaceful Quotes - Page 34

• Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Popular Vote, Government

  Ernesto Guevara, Brian Loveman, Thomas M. Davies (1985). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friendship, Men, Lazy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.243, Tyché

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• This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.

  David Rockefeller

  Opportunity, Order, Nwo

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• So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

  Snoop Dogg

  Weed, Rap, Appreciate

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• It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fall, Men, Organization

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays and Letters”

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• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Inspiring, Believe, People

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Justice, Church

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• O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts... May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people.

  Pope John XXIII

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.

  Joseph Story

  Blessing, Blood, America

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• The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens.

  Joseph Story

  Government, Rights, Justice

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.191

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• Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Taken, Choices

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Military, People

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Pride

  Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

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• Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Compassion, World

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• I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.... And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans.

  Michael Parenti

  Believe, Dirty, America

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• For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in the free, prosperous, and peaceful international order that fundamentally serves our national interest.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Compassion, Expression, Order

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• And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

  Lewis Carroll

  Peace, Nature, Sleep

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.190, Lewis Carroll

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• Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

  John Milton

  Peace, Agreement, Sloth

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 226

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• We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Peace, Nice, Passion

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.24, Verso

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• But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Mean, America

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• Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Lobsters and Lies" by Madeleine Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2011.

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• The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

  Franz Liszt

  Dwelling, Fever, Disease

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• Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that their presence not be revealed." "One must consider the fact that mis-identification of these space craft for a intercontinental missile in a re-entry phase of flight could lead to accidental nuclear war with horrible consequences.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  War, Race, Agreement

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• Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.

  Yunus-bek Yevkurov

  Expectations, This Generation, Generations

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• It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

  Meryl Streep

  Missing, Easier, Yearning

  "Fictional character: Kate Gulden". "One True Thing", 1998.

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