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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. – Dorothy Thompson

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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. – Dorothy Thompson

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. – Dorothy Thompson

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The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. – Ludwig Quidde

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I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. – King George V

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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. – Nelson Mandela

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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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