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In
our innermost Spirit - we nourish the gentleness
and understanding of Peace.
Those around us feel a gentle breeze
whispering as if rustling leaves
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Peace comes not from contemplation-
but action!
-- Pauline
Tangiora |
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Ah, when shall all
men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft
of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
-- Alfred Tennyson (The Golden Year)
Ring
out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out
the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
-- Alfred
Tennyson
| Wars
begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have
built the defenses of peace.
~ U
Thant |  |
They
have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war - as though the
absence of war was the same as peace.
-- Dorothy Thompson
Our
goal must not be peace in our time but peace for all time.
-- Harry S. Truman
I
would rather have peace in the world than be President.
-- Harry S. Truman
"I love my country
very much. But I must say I love people all over the world, and we better all
start loving each other or we're going to blow each other to kingdom come."
-- Ted Turner |  |
"We,
the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from
the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind,
and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of
the human person, in the equal right of men and women and of nations large and
small....And for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with
one another as good neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish
these aims."
-- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.
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Did
you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments
as they spend on the children of this world every year?
-- Peter
Ustinov |
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Peace
is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
-- Paul Valery
We
have war because we are not sufficiently heroic for a life which does not need
war.
-- Bartolomeo Vanzeiti
Peace
is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.
-- Joan Walsh
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To have a peaceful
population, we must teach peace.
-- Cora
Weiss
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"You cannot have peace without human rights, democracy, gender equality, and clean
water. Look to the root causes of war and you will find, in their reverse, the
root foundations of peace."
-- Cora
Weiss |  |
Most
people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad
Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace
is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity
and well-being, it will have to be the state of
Something Good Happening.
-- E.B.
White | |
Peace
hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew
-- John Greenleaf Whittier
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Peace is our gift to each other.
-- Elie
Wiesel Mankind
needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war,
is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man
can prevent.
-- Elie
Wiesel *
If
only we could celebrate peace as our various ancestors celebrated war; if only
we could glorify peace as those before us, thirsting for adventure, glorified
war; if only our sages and scholars together could resolve to infuse peace with
the same energy and inspiration that others have put into war. |
Declaration
of the Peace People:
We
have a simple message for the world from this movement for peace.
We
want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.
We
want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and at
play to be lives of joy and peace.
We
recognize that to build such a life demands of all of us dedication, hard work
and courage.
We
recognize that there are many problems in our society which are a source of conflict
and violence.
We
recognize that every bullet fired and every exploding bomb makes that work more
difficult.
We
reject the use of the bomb and the bullet and all the techniques of violence.
We dedicate ourselves
to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that
peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing
warning.
-- Betty
Williams
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Why
has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?
-- Stevie Wonder |
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for Peace
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