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We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle
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May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.

Eskimo Proverb
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What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared. -Napoleon Bonaparte
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Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Rita Mae Brown
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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. -Baruch Spinoza
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

T. S. Eliot
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. -Lyndon B. Johnson
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

Jawaharlal Nehru
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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. -Peter McWilliams
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Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

John Buchan
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero
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Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart. -Patanjali
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There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein
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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson
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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. -W. Somerset Maugham
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Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.

African Proverb
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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'I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.' -Dylan Moran
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One minute of patience, ten years of peace.

Greek Proverb
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

James Thomson
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Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. -Max Ehrman
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Peace at home, peace in the world.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Force is not a remedy.

John Bright
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. -St. Francis Of Assisi
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"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

Pat Robertson
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Max Lerner
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Bloody Christmas, here again, Let us raise a loving cup, Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing up. -Wendy Cope
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