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Peace Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
- There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and…
- True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or…
- Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the…
- We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven.…
- Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and…
- Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water…
- And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and…
- There is no peace in South Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until…
- Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the…
- Peace without justice is an impossibility.
- And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe…
- We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and…
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail…
- Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down…
- In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
- In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use…
- The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale