“If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.”
— Epictetus
Author: Epictetus
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“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
— John Wooden
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“Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.”
— Sandra Cisneros
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“Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.”
— Suzanne Fields
Author: Suzanne Fields
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“I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.”
— Ehud Olmert
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“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“I fought for peace in the fifties.”
— Pete Seeger
Author: Pete Seeger
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“If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.”
— John Dingell
Author: John Dingell
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“Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.”
— King Abdullah II
Author: King Abdullah II
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“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.”
— Alfred Nobel
Author: Alfred Nobel
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“That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.”
— Shimon Peres
Author: Shimon Peres
Category: peace
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