"I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."
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"We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war."
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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it."
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"Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven."
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"Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power."
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"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."
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"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"
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"I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference."
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"Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away."
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"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets."
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"All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished."
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"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."
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"I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace."
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"There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance."
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"There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament."
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"Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it."
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"The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof."
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"I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing."
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"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
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"The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm."
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