"Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace."
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"Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour"
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"Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above."
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"Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world."
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"Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body."
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"Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world."
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"War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace."
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"This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian."
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"World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth."
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"To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace."
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"Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity."
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"Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye."
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"This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me."
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"Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose."
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"The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor."
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"If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them."
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"War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive."
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"Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war."
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"Non-violence is the article of faith."
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"Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view"
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