Peacemaking Quotes - Page 2

• Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Life, Peace, Broken

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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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• 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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• Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Peace, Humanity, Advancement

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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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• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Hands

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• Imagine all the people living life in peace.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Live Life, Perhaps Love

  Song: Imagine, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

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• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

  Maria Montessori

  Peace, War, Educational

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Freedom

  Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

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• It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Truth, Yoga

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• If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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

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• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

  William E. Gladstone

  Love, Life, Time

  Attributed to Gladstone in The National Elementary Principal, Volume 28, 1948.

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• All we are saying is give peace a chance.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Light, Giving

  1969 Song (with his wife,Yoko Ono), used widely in protests against the Vietnam War.

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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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• Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

  Ajahn Chah

  Peace, Heart, Turtles

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Peace, Military, War

  "Adagia". Book by Desiderius Erasmus, 1500.

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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 is no trust more sacred than the
  one the world holds with children.

  Kofi Annan

  Respect, Peace, Children

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2017

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• We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Peace, Humanity, Warfare

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• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

  Malcolm X

  Peace, Freedom, Inspiration

  Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.

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• I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Wisdom, Peace

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• War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Political

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Equality, Mutual Help

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