Peace Quotes
9841 Peace quotes by 3934 unique authors
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Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of…
— Sadako Ogata
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We learned that we could move others to take action...Even though we couldn't stop the war, I discovered that I could be involved in the…
— Marla Ruzicka
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I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I…
— Martin Sheen
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The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production…
— Vandana Shiva
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War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is…
— Charles Sumner
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for…
— U Thant
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In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two…
— Lech Walesa
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It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.
— Gabriel Ba
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to…
— Jonathan Swift
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world…
— Bill Frist
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Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come…
— Condoleezza Rice
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away...
— Kristin Armstrong
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to…
— Ronald Reagan
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I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said…
— Ronald Reagan
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
— Andrew Jackson
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is,…
— Kristin Armstrong
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In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men…
— J. William Fulbright
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Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since…
— J. William Fulbright
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Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs…
— J. William Fulbright
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Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the…
— J. William Fulbright
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