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Tag: peace, war

Jeannette Rankin

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war

James S.A. Corey

Because we can’t just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation.

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance; a perfectly upright and stoical bearing.

Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.

James S.A. Corey

Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing.

Martha Gellhorn

I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility of man, which is what would be required for world peace; I only believe in the human race. I believe the human race must continue.

Bernard Cornwell

I decided to start a war, father”, I said, cheerfully, “it’s so much more interesting than peace.

Augustine of Hippo

it is a higher glory… to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

Dennis Kucinich

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can’t blow the world to peace.

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

Eknath Easwaran

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.