Quotes with peace-at-any-price

Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 2589.

  • Aldous Huxley The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Golding The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
    Source: Lord of the Flies
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Calvin Harris The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Betty Williams The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bao Dai The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Pope John XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Lester Bangs The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Anna Lindh The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Grover Cleveland The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • Arthur Herzog The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Bertrand Russell The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Edward Gibbon The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Peace Pilgrim The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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