“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
— Dorothy Thompson
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“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
— Dorothy Thompson
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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
— C. S. Lewis
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“On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.”
— Jimmy Carter
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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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“There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.”
— Morihei Ueshiba
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“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.”
— Daniel Berrigan
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“The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.”
— Prem Rawat
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“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.”
— Nelson Mandela
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“It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.”
— Pierre Bayle
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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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