Peacemaking Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Peaceful, Benefits

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

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ambition, Pride, Envy

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• In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.

  Kofi Annan

  Peace, War, Law

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• Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Peace, Survival, Age

  "Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations" by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, (p. 203), 1986.

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• Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Peace, Justice, Democracy

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Peace and not war is the father of all things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Father, War

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

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• Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.

  Robert Muller

  Dream, Peace, World

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• There can be no peace without law.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Law, Humanity

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• You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

  John Lennon

  Teamwork, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• War is the father of all things.

  Heraclitus

  Peace, Father, War

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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• War is what happens when language fails.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Empowering, Language

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'”, p.46, Hachette UK

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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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• There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, Humanity, Waking

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• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Father, War

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

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• Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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

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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Terrorism, Hundred

  "The Old Way of Thinking". The Progressive, November 2001.

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• Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy.

  Tripp York

  Hate, Love You, Garden

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Path

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• Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Members, Vocation

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community”, Edicoes Loyola

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• Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Eye, Fire

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• That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Dream, Seeking, God's Will

  Brian D. McLaren (2007). “The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

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