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Peace Quotes by Pope John Paul II
- America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every…
- When man turns his back on the Creator's plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If…
- Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
- The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and…
- Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
- Another name for peace is development.
- The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right…
- The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to…
- The only way to peace is forgiveness.
- Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
- Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace…
- There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
- There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become…
- The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual…
- The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national…
- Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
- War is a defeat for humanity.
- Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
- True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom…
- Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
- Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to…
- Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle…
- Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.
- If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we…
- Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in…
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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