"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace."

Hecht, Ben on peace
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"If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago."

Hazlitt, William on peace   

"I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living."

Hardie, James Keir on peace   

"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 its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."

Hammarskjold, Dag on peace   

"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions."

Hammarskjold, Dag on peace
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"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace."

Gladstone, William E. on peace   

"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."

Gide, Andre on peace
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"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."

Gandhi, Mahatma on peace
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"A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace."

Gersonides on peace
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"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."

Fuller, Thomas on peace
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"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away."

Fulghum, Robert on peace
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"Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on peace   

"A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war."

Dyke, Henry Van on peace
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"The peace makers shall be called the children of God."

Bible on peace
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"Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]"

Bible on peace
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"They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]"

Bible on peace
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"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace."

Baruch, Bernard M. on peace
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"Right human relations is the only true peace."

Bailey, Alice A. on peace
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"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."

Aurelius, Marcus on peace
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"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Amis, Martin on peace
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"Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love."

Allen, James on peace
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword."

Bible on peace
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"Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]"

Bible on peace
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"When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them."

Bible on peace
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"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

Dayan, Moshe on peace
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"What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace."

Conrad, Joseph on peace
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"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."

Cicero, Marcus T. on peace
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"There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories."

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame on peace   

"When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace."

Catherine of Genoa, St. on peace
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"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves."

Camus, Albert on peace
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"'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

Buddha on peace
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"All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate."

Brittain, Vera on peace
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"Don't tell me peace has broken out."

Brecht, Bertolt on peace
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"In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages."

Brahmanada, Swami on peace
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"We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on peace
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