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Waging Peace
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Peace Quotations - Gallery 2
"If we don't stop the bomb who will take care of the flowers?"
Neil J. Seattle, Age 9
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
Buddha
"Teach this triple truth to all:
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity."
Buddha
"It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners."
Albert Camus
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing.
But why should love stop at the border?"
Pablo Casals
"No man is an island entire of itself ...
any man's death diminishes me because I am
involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee."
Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazo
"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness.
If he listens to it and acts on it,
he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.
It is not complicated but it takes courage.
It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."
Pablo Casals
"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain."
Cesar Chavez
"Justice is truth in action."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly."
G.K. Chesterton
"If we do not change our direction,
we are likely to end up where we are headed for."
Chinese Proverb
"There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth."
Chinese Proverb
"Peace we want because there is another war to fight
against poverty, disease and
ignorance."
Indira Gandhi
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill
"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.
You talk to your enemies."
Moshe Dayan
"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human."
Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr.
"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women)
who refuse military
service."
Albert Einstein
"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
Confucius
"Out of clutter, find simplicity.
From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"We must be the change we wish to see."
Mahatma Gandhi
"War is an invention of the human mind.
The human mind can invent peace with justice."
Norman Cousins
"To be nobody but yourself
in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else,
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,
and never stop fighting."
e. e. cummings
"Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity,
shall
harness for God the energies of love.
Then for the second time in the history of the world,
we will have discovered fire."
Teilhard de Chardin
"Very few people chose war.
They chose selfishness and the result was war.
Each of us, individually and nationally,
must choose: total love or total war."
Dave Dellinger
"Love the fellow of the resurrection, scooping up the dust and chanting "Live!"
Emily Dickinson
Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.
Jack DuVall
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