Peaceful Quotes - Page 6

• Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Dream, Home, Joy

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.136

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• I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

  Eminem

  Teacher, School, Funny Things

  "Song: 'I'm Shady'". 1999.

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• Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Israel, Numbers, Nuclear

  "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.

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• When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.

  Francis Parkman

  Hunting, Discovery, Europe

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.145, Library of America

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• Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.

  Francis Parkman

  Art, War, Men

  Francis Parkman (1865). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.214

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• A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

  L. Neil Smith

  Real, Civilization, Cities

  "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.

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• Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.

  David Boaz

  War, Men, Class

  David Boaz (2015). “The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, Knowing, Water

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• AAB actively campaigns to reduce aggression and counter bullying by creating peaceful campaigns such as Cyberkind.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Bullying, Creating, Campaigns

  Campaign speech at House of Lords, November 11, 2009.

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• As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.

  Konstantin Chernenko

  Responsibility, Unions, Serious

  Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, Viktor Pribytkov (1984). “Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko”, Praeger Publishers

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• Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

  Nhat Hanh

  Helping Others, People, Movement

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Benefits, Not Happy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.

  Hal David

  Girl, Love Is, Men

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• May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of Bêl and Nâbu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes.

  Cyrus the Great

  Blessed, Land, Long

  Inscription on the Cyrus Cylinder, as translated at Livius.org, www.livius.org. 538 B.C.E..

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• Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.

  Lloyd deMause

  War, Simple, Savages

  "The Emotional Life of Nations". Book by Lloyd deMause, 2002.

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• Capitalists control the machineries. They create difficulties to the workers. Consequently rationalism, which has to lead the way for peaceful life to all, has resulted in causing poverty and worries to the people because of dominating forces.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  People, Worry, Way

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 511, 2005.

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• We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Heart

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• Taylor Swift's dedication to advocacy at such a young age continues to inspire me, and I'm delighted to honor her as one of our 2012 Ripple of Hope Award recipients. [...] and especially the compassion she's shown as a proud defender against bullying and LGBTI discrimination. [...] As a young person, Taylor has already accomplished so much, and I look forward to watching all that she will do to help build a brighter, more peaceful world for us all.

  Kerry Kennedy

  Bullying, Compassion, Dedication

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• For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

  Thaddeus Norris

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Thaddeus Norris (1864). “The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing”, p.567

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• Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner strength which I, in turn, have attempted to communicate to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Struggle, Buddhism, Negativity

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• Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Writing, Sea, Near And Far

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• At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Usa, Order

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical.

  Rudy Giuliani

  War, Ocean, Fighting

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, "Kill all white babies."

  Glenn Beck

  Baby, Kings, War

  "Beck: 'They want a race war ... and our government is going to stand by and let them do it'". www.mediamatters.org. July 12, 2010.

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• Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

  George Washington

  Ocean, Care, Evening

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.488

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