Quotes with peace-keeping

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  • George Steiner To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Tacitus To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Milan Kundera To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Arthur Henderson To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Abdallah II Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Horace Mann Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Kin Hubbard Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Albert Schweitzer Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Kofi Annan Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Julius Kambarge Nyerere Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.
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  • Bruce Sterling War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Norman Cousins War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
    Source: Who Speaks for Man (1953) p. 318
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • George Orwell War is peace,
    Freedom is slavery,
    Ignorance is strength.
    Source: 1984
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Source: Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (28 April 1939), quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 2
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • André Malraux War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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