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

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
  • I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

    Harry S. Truman (2003). “Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops”, p.106, SIU Press
  • If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
  • Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

    Peace   World   Moral  
    Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”
  • Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

    Peace   War   Serenity  
  • Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

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

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
    Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
  • Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3610, e-artnow
  • If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

    Love   Life   Happiness  
    Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.
  • Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

    Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Peace   Work   Ubuntu  
  • We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in the South Caucasus. With this vision, we have agreed to move forward without any preconditions, not making our relations contingent upon Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, if, as many suspect, it is proven that Turkey's goal is to protract, rather than to normalize relations, we will have to discontinue the process.

    Moving   Turkeys   Goal  
    Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, February 10, 2010.
  • The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

    Peace   Real   War  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

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

    Peace   Truth   Yoga  
  • 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.

    "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.
  • If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

    Life   Friendship   Peace  
  • Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

    Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”
  • There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

    "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" by Black Elk, 1953.
  • All we are saying is give peace a chance.

    Peace   Light   Giving  
    1969 Song (with his wife,Yoko Ono), used widely in protests against the Vietnam War.
  • You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

    Song: Imagine
  • If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

    "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.
  • Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

    Inspiring   Karma   Peace  
    1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.
  • War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

    Peace   War   Military  
    "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1951.
  • Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

    Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”
  • Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

    Peace   War   Sacrifice  
    Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan
  • Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

    Happiness   Smile   Peace  
    Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
  • I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

    Running   Peace   Believe  
    Broadcast discussion, 31 Aug. 1959
  • We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

    Peace   War   Negative  
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