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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
-Proverb
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
-Proverb
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
-Proverb
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
-Proverb
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
-James Allen
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
-Martin Amis
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Right human relations is the only true peace.
-Alice A. Bailey
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.
-Bernard Baruch
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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4
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Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14
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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.
-Bible
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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.
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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. Psalms 119:165
-Bible
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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.
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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
-Ambrose Bierce
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
-David Borenstein, October 26, 1999
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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?
-Frank Borman
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We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
-Omar Bradley
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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
-Swami Brahmanada
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Don't tell me peace has broken out.
-Bertolt Brecht
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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
-Vera Brittain
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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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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
-Buddha
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Books about Peace
