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Peace Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
- "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He…
- We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as…
- The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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