"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."
"Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development."
"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."
"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."
"World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated."
"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought."
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful."
"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."
"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
"Compromise does not mean cowardice."
"Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men."
"He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is."
"We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'."
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy."
"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."