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Peace

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. – Karl Marx

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. – Woody Allen

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. – Norman Vincent Peale

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. – Jawaharlal Nehru

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. – Martin Luther

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. – Thomas a Kempis

On all the peaks lies peace. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred universal brotherhood, not enmity peace, and not violence. – Pervez Musharraf

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. – Norman Schwarzkopf

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. – Deepak Chopra

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. – Victor Hugo

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. – Louis Farrakhan

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. – Albert Schweitzer

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. – George W. Bush

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. – Omar N. Bradley