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Peace Quotes by Paul Theroux
- The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
- When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for…
- My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as…
- I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The…
- I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush.…
More Peace Quotes
- 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