"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."
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"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
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"Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development."
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"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
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"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."
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"World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated."
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"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought."
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
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"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
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"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful."
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"Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war."
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"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
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"Compromise does not mean cowardice."
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"Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men."
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"He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is."
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"We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'."
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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy."
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"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."
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