Ubuntu Quotes - Page 5

• It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Faith, Peace, Rocks

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

  Croesus

  Motivational, Peace, Father

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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, Justice

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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• There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, People

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• Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

  Baudouin of Belgium

  Peace, War, Men

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• There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

  Marianne Moore

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Equality, Destiny

  Barbara Jordan (1999). “Barbara C. Jordan--selected Speeches”

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• If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Peace, Work, Achievement

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• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Memories, Jewels, Surfing

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• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Peace

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• Compromise does not mean cowardice.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Mean, Doe

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• To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Wicked

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.130, Penguin

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• Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Peace, Compassion

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• In the name of peace
  They waged the wars
  ain't they got no shame

  Nikki Giovanni

  Peace, War, Names

  Nikki Giovanni (2009). “The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

  Hildegard Goss-Mayr

  Peace, Creative, Essentials

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• The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.

  Hassan II of Morocco

  Inspirational, Peace, Kings

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• Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

  Denise Levertov

  Peace, War, Mind

  Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.155, New Directions Publishing

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• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Funny, Peace, Knives

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• I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

  Gene La Rocque

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Heart, Winning

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• They make a desert and call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Desert, Global Issues

  Agricola ch. 30. These are allegedly Calgacus's words at the battle of the Grampians.

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• May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

  John Woolman

  Peace, War, Simplicity

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