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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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Again, to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God, Who is the God of unity and peace.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“As the idealism of our youth has served world peace, so can it serve the domestic tranquility.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“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

“This notwithstanding, I will not undertake war, until I have first tried all the ways and means of peace: that I resolve upon.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“right is more precious than peace” Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“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

“It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength—economic strength and military strength.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

“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

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

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