Quotes with peace-building

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  • Harry S. Truman It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
    Poor Richards Almanack
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.
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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Salman Rushdie After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • John Cowper Powys Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
    The meaning of culture
    John Cowper Powys
    British writer, philosopher and poet (1872 - 1963)
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  • Dave Barry Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Samuel Johnson As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
    Tractatus Politicus
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Heraclitus God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Victor Hugo Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Thomas Traherne I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Mrs. Patrick Campbell Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
    Alexander Woollcott, The First Mrs. Tanqueray
    Mrs. Patrick Campbell
    English stage actress (1865 - 1940)
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  • Ada V. Hendricks May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Kofi Annan Peace is never a perfect achievement.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Peace, like charity, begins at home.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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