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...if our humanity –
our soul as a society – is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will
be no hope of peace.
~ Robert
Redford |
The
more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
-- Hyman G. Rickover
Peace is not
a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
--
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dream
of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony
with all life forms.
-- John Robbins (b. 1914-)
"Peace is not the
product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not
the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution
of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right
and it is duty."
-- Oscar
Romero | |
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"It
isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough
to believe in it; one must work at it."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt We
have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are
going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt |
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"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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More
than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning
of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman
and thoroughly impractical method of settling the
differences between governments. -- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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The
motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the
weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong
help the weak to survive." --Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
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What shall we choose?
Violence or non violence? …We have to choose knowing that when we are violent
to our enemies, we do violence to ourselves. When we brutalize others, we brutalize
ourselves. And eventually we run the risk of becoming our oppressors.
-- Arundhati Roy |  |
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It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together.
It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must
all help one another or all perish together.
-- Carl
Sagan |
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The most valuable possesion
you can own is an open heart. The
most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
-- Carlos
Santana |  |
Peace
is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
-- Maria Schell
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In
the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit
of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited
possibilities. Only when this really happens-- when the spirit of peace awakens
and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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Nonviolence,
pacifism, that's the greatest thing that I think the human species has to aspire
to, because otherwise it's not going to be around.
-- Martin Scorsese
Peace
is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind,
a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
-- Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
