"There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you."
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"I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites."
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"All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice."
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"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]"
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"The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries."
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"To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace."
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"The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process."
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"Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment."
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"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."
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"Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy."
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"Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised."
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"How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil."
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"The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer."
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"For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war."
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"The sinews of war are infinite money."
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"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."
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