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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empi

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. – Tacitus

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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

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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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That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two. – Shimon Peres

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. – Martin Amis

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