"There never was a good war or a bad revolution."
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"Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed."
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"It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it."
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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
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"The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both."
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"If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world."
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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow."
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"I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself."
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"You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun."
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"We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy."
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"Before all else, be armed."
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies."
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"Imagine all the people living life in peace."
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"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."
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"Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace."
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"On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace."
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"To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary."
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"The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself."
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"Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart."
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