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Peace Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
- I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
- Conformity is the ape of harmony.
- Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
- Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
- Lose yourself in nature and find peace
- We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed…
- Let there be worse cotton and better men.
- Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
- When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so.…
- Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
- The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
- Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Always do what you are afraid to do.
- The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or…
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always…
- Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with…
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
- The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
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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
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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