"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
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"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice."
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"Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people."
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"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
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"What war has always been is a puberty ceremony."
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"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
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"We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves."
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"It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized."
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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
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"There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think."
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"I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace."
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"We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community."
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"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."
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"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
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"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
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"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
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"If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem."
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"Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form."
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"In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us�.. "Namaste.""
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"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
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