“Peace cannot be bullied into existence.”

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“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
- Sun Tzu
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“We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?”
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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“The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and that the only way you can actually do that, is that then you have to have a political, economic system that facilitates that.”
- Wangari Maathai
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“To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken.”
- C. Wright Mills
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“Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.”
- Oscar Arias
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“Building peace is more often about creating space, developing relationships, persevering in spite of overwhelming pessimism, and being flexible enough to respond to emerging opportunities, meager as they may be.”
- John Paul Lederach
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
- A.J. Muste
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“The road to peace is paved with dignity.”
- Donna Hicks
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“The beauty of peace is in trying to find solutions together.”
- Dekha Ibrahim Abdi
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“The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.”
- Aristide Briand
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“I’m not disturbing the peace. I’m disturbing the war.”
- Ammon Ashford Hennacy
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“Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.”
- Johan Galtung
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“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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“In settings of deep conflict, words and promises do not constitute an adequate measure that genuine change has taken place. People’s actions, attitudes, and behavior do.”
- John Paul Lederach
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“Peace cannot be bullied into existence.”
- Ali Jarbawi
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“Without deep listening and gentle loving speech it is very difficult to move towards peace. Peace will only become a reality, when world leaders come to negotiations with the ability to hear the suffering at the root of all conflicts.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh (
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“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
- Nelson Mandela,
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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
- Maria Montessori
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“To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.”
- Ralph Bunche
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“If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.”
- Pope John Paul II
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“Peace is a practical positive policy, which must be attained by friendly co-operation between the nations, putting the good of all before the interests of each.”
- Anna Ruth Fry
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“I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.”
- Sir John Frederick Maurice
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“A treaty of Peace may, indeed, put an end to a particular war, yet not to the general condition of war, in which a pretext can always be found for new hostilities.”
- Immanuel Kant
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“Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.”
- Ralph Bunche