peace Quotes

“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

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“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

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“The first branch, of which Rule, containeth the first, and Fundamentall Law of Nature; which is, 'To seek Peace, and follow it.'”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“For the stability and peace of Asia, it is essential to create peace zones to separate the continent's biggest powers and potential adversaries.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

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“Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“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

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“right is more precious than peace”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

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“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

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“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

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“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

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