"When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease."
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"To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others."
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"Our own life has to be our message."
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"If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace."
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"If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either."
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"I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it."
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"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
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"There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night."
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"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
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"If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."
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"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
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"Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power."
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"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they."
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"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."
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"Effective action is always unjust."
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"Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it is small, peace is fragile. Like a baby, it needs nurturing attention. We must protect peace from violence and perversion if it is to grow. We must be strong to do this. But force, even in the name of honor, is always tragic. Instead, we must use the strength of wisdom and conscience. Only that power can nurture peace in this difficult time."
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"With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace."
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"Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind."
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"A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind."
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"The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form."
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