Peaceful Quotes - Page 40

• Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

  Bill Ayers

  Numbers, People, Broken

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• It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

  Jan Egeland

  Fighting, Practice, Leader

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". Interview with Jan Egeland, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

  Russ Feingold

  Protest, Peaceful Protest

  "CBS Gives Platform to Russ Feingold to Bash Herman Cain As 'Un-American' For Criticizing 'Occupy Wall Street'". Interview with Matthew Balan, www.newsbusters.org. October 10, 2011.

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• By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

  Humphry Davy

  Wisdom, Passion, Eye

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.26

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• I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

  Todd Rundgren

  Hydrogen Bomb, Hands, Bombs

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• The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Insecurity, Faults, Looks

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• China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Independent, Principles

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

  Hu Jintao

  Issues, Nuclear, Attention

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

  Peter Hain

  Past, Ira, Produce

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• If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

  Tom Hardy

  Brother, Lucky, Sides

  "Tom Hardy Interview For ‘Warrior’". budomate.com. 2011.

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• In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any lines.

  Darrell Issa

  Religious, America, Trying

  "NewsNight Aaron Brown", www.cnn.com. December 12, 2001.

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• Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

  Darrell Issa

  Wish, Middle East, Violence

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• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Years, Awareness, Process

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• Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

  Lou Rawls

  Romantic, Summer, Love You

  Song: Lady Love

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• Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

  Michelle Malkin

  Team, Government, Office

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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Order, People

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• When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Years, Law, Battle

  "International Men’s Day" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Debt, Democratic, Diamond

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• Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Males, Female, Needs

  Song: Maybe The Poet, 2010

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• When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Life, Peace, Heart

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• Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Happiness, Gratitude, Thinking

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• Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

  Criss Jami

  War, Believe, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.54, Criss Jami

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• I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

  Shelby Lynne

  Heart, Kind, Feels

  "Singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 2, 2011.

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• It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  People, Know How, Knows

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

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• Some days, a beautiful sunset with your best friend can be one of the most peaceful and relaxing mediations of the day.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Beautiful, Sunset, Your Best Friend

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