“We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”

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“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
- Peace Pilgrim
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“For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I hope…that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
- Benjamin Franklin
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“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.”
- Dag Hammarskjold
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“We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.”
- Albert Einstein
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“No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.”
- Croesus Turkey)
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“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
- Albert Camus
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“We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
- Jimmy Carter
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“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.”
- Indira Gandhi
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“First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”
- Thomas Kempis
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“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”
- Etty Hillesum
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“Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
- Albert Schweitzer
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“If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart.”
- Lao Tzu
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“When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right (or then the mind sees right); when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world.”
- Confucius
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“The life of ‘peace’ is both an inner journey toward a disarmed heart and a public journey toward a disarmed world. This difficult but beautiful journey gives infinite meaning and fulfillment to life itself because our lives become a gift for the whole human race. With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense.”
- John Dear
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“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
- Francis Of Assisi
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“Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, and understanding, will war disappear.”
- Osho
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“If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed — but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
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“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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“A large part of peace is genuinely wanting peace.”
- Erasmus Of Rotterdam
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“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
- Baruch Spinoza
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“Peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.”
- Prem Rawat
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“Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity of worth of cultures and peoples.”
- Rigoberta Menchu