"Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something."
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"Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being."
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"We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?"
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"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."
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"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war."
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"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
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"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
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"We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war."
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"We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace."
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"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
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"I appreciate all that I am and all that I have. Stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you do have."
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"Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them."
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"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."
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"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."
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"The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America."
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"Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world."
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"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious."
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"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
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