It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

One in All All in One-- If only this is realized, No more worry about your not being perfect (175)

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

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