"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
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"Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge."
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"And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created."
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"Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us talking about getting guns out of the schools. How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems without violence?"
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"Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have."
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"Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on."
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"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
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"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
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"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
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"Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't."
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"When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides."
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"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none"
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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."
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"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."
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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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"Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other."
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"If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic."
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"If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy."
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"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."
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"You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have."
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