Peace Quotes
“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.” ~~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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“The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison either this order.” ~~ Henry Miller
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“The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.” ~~ Lin-Chi
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“I am a part of all that I have met.” ~~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Hide your body in the Big Dipper.” ~~ Zen Saying
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“Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.” ~~ Tao te Ching
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“In my hut this spring, there is nothing - there is everything!” ~~ Sodo
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“If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.” ~~ Fo-Yan
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” ~~ Wallace Stevens
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“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.” ~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“The journey is the reward.” ~~ Chinese Proverb
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“This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.” ~~ Werner Erhard
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“If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.” ~~ Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.” ~~ Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.” ~~ Kin Hubbard
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“Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.” ~~ Ambrose Bierce
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“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” ~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.” ~~ Johann von Schiller
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“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.” ~~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.” ~~ Andre Gide
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“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” ~~ T.S. Eliot
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“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” ~~ Charles F. Kettering
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“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” ~~ Buddha
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“Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.” ~~ Thucydides
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“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice.” ~~ Spinoza
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“Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart.” ~~ Colton
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“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” ~~ Cicero
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“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.” ~~ Ovid
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“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” ~~ Erasmus
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“Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.” ~~ Dryden
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“Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.” ~~ James Thomson
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“You may either win your peace or buy it; win it by resistance to evil; buy it by compromise with evil.” ~~ John Ruskin
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“Whatever foster militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.” ~~ Herbert Spencer
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“The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.” ~~ Raymond Swing
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“In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.” ~~ Tacitus
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“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” ~~ Shakespeare
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“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” ~~ La Rochefouçauld
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“If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.” ~~ John Russell
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“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” ~~ G. B. Shaw
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“Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.” ~~ Winston Churchill
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“Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.” ~~ James Shotwell
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“Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world.” ~~ The Talmud
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“Better than a thousand useless words
is one single word that gives peace.
Better than a thousand useless verses
is one single verse that gives peace.
Better than a hundred useless poems
is one single poem that gives peace.” ~~ The Dhammapada
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“Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the children of God.” ~~ Matthew V, 9
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“Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.” ~~ F. R. Scott
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“Spirits of peace, where are ye? Are ye all gone? And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?” ~~ Shakespeare
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“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” ~~ Aesop
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“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” ~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?” ~~ Patrick Henry
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“Worldwide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.” ~~ Gifford Pinchot
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“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” ~~ Calgacus
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“I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.” ~~ Erich von Ludendorff
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“You may either win your peace or buy it; win it by resistance to evil; buy it by compromise with evil.” ~~ John Ruskin
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“The excellence of good temper is that you offend no one and that you endure other people's annoyance without rancor or seeking retaliation.” ~~ Sari al Saqati
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