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A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.Collection: Peace
That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.Collection: Peace
Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.Collection: Peace
I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.Collection: Peace
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.Collection: Peace
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.Collection: Peace
I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.Collection: Peace
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.Collection: Peace
[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.Collection: Peace
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.Collection: Peace
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.Collection: Peace
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.Collection: Peace
I think the message of peace is for everyone.Collection: Peace
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.Collection: Peace
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.Collection: Peace
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Collection: Peace
We will never be enlightened unless we realize and own what our capacity, from the best of the best to the worst of the worst because then we have more empathy, more compassion, more sympathy for others who do things that are hurtful and harmful and we see, given certain situations, I'm capable of that myself. So, I'm less judgmental.Collection: Peace
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.Collection: Peace
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love.Collection: Peace
Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.Collection: Peace
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.Collection: Peace
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.Collection: Peace
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.Collection: Peace
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.Collection: Peace
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.Collection: Peace
The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.Collection: Peace
The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.Collection: Peace
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.Collection: Peace
. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .Collection: Peace
I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.Collection: Peace
Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.Collection: Peace
If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.Collection: Peace
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.Collection: Peace
Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.Collection: Peace
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.Collection: Peace
Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.Collection: Peace
Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.Collection: Peace
Imagine all the people living life in peace.Collection: Peace
Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.Collection: Peace
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.Collection: Peace
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.Collection: Peace
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.Collection: Peace
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.Collection: Peace
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.Collection: Peace
Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.Collection: Peace
Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.Collection: Peace
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.Collection: Peace
We have guided missiles and misguided men.Collection: Peace
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.Collection: Peace