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All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.
For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.
If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and upholder of international order.
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.
When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.