"What we need is a generation of peace."
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"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
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"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
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"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."
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"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
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"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another."
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"When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities."
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"Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists."
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"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war."
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"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."
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"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk."
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"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
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"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
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"When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation."
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"Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time."
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"We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change."
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"If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace."
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"A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one."
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"My experience is the opposite."
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"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again."
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