"No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it."
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"What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly."
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"Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup."
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"If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God."
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"In the arts of peace Man is a bungler."
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"If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase."
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"I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God."
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"Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off."
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"Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction."
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"More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."
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"If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace."
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"Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it."
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"Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence."
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"The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered."
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"War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent."
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"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle."
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"Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators."
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"And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors."
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