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“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“But when he has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” Plato, The Republic

“I would like to take this opportunity to explain the Zone of Ahimsa or peace sanctuary concept, which is the central element of the Five-Point Peace Plan. I am convinced that it is of great importance not only for Tibet, but for peace and...” 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars . . . War breeds war.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Let every one have his own way, and we shall be always at peace.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2

“Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the trusted foundations of political liberty.” Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

“Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose...” Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

“My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace, and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.” Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There must be not only a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.” Woodrow Wilson, A World League For Peace

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace, must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice, and confidence may prevail...” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

“It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of human instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape...” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

“If the peace presently to be made is to endure it must be a peace made secure by the organized major force of mankind.” Woodrow Wilson, A World League For Peace

“The mere absence of war is not peace.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.” Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” Confucius, Analects

“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.” 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war, and to end it.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Immanuel Kant argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways: by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice.” Henry Kissinger, On China

“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is my heart: I know it is.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.” Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

“A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2

“So tell me the secret so I can take it back to Earth and save us all: How can a planet live at peace?” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“You’ll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“For it can never be that Warre shall preserve life, and Peace destroy it.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Many of the boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them, day after day, the results of the war. If we do not achieve the ends for which they sacrificed—a peaceful world in which there exists freedom...” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends . . . It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“He in peace is wounded, not in war.” William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by more envy, care, and uneasiness than are experienced by a besieged town.” Voltaire, Candide

“In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, to reap the harvest of perpetual peace by this one bloody trial of sharp war.” William Shakespeare, Richard III

“The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power...” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace to silence envious tongues.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other—that man, that woman, that child is my brother, my sister.” Mother Teresa, Where There Is Love, There Is God

“He gave his honours to the world again, his blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“I am at peace with God, my conflict is with man.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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