Peacekeeping Quotes - Page 2

• I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

  Michel Martelly

  Want, Pushing, Force

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• Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

  Brian Tracy

  Peace, Goal, Humanity

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 23, 2015

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• Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

  William Hague

  Play, Doe, These Days

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• What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

  Samantha Power

  Government, Want, Protection

  "Dying in Darfur" by Samantha Power, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2004.

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• Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.

  Susan Rice

  Rights, People, Political

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• When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix.

  Jean-Marie Guehenno

  Broken, Support, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

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• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security.

  Jean-Marie Guehenno

  Needs, Aspirin, Ingredients

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1925). “Young India”

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• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Mean

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

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• I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.

  Kofi Annan

  Jobs, Thinking, Done

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

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• We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, Successful, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush's Comments by Bush on the Air Strikes Against the Iraqis, www.nytimes.com. January 17, 1991.

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• The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.

  Ralph Bunche

  Rights, Progress, Society

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Would Be, World, Stability

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• Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.

  Mel Duncan

  War, Alternatives, May

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• Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

  Petrarch

  Forgiveness, Peace, Anger

  "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable.

  Kofi Annan

  Running, Horizon, Way

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• Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Peace, Creating, Space

  "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book edited by Michael Collopy and Jason Gardner, 2000.

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• Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

  Robert Fulghum

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Peace, Gun, Helping Others

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• If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Peace, Humanity, Half

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, War, Want

  "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia". Book by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, 1953.

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