"Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven."
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"Isn't the best defense always a good attack?"
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"For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race."
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"A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat."
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"Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons."
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"Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace."
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"One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible."
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"Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos."
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"The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them."
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"Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses."
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"Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all."
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"I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth."
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"It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace."
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"Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will."
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"I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard."
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"An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war."
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"This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division."
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"If I want to live in a peaceful world, then it is up to me to make sure that I am a peaceful person. No matter how others behave, I keep peace in my heart. I declare peace in the midst of chaos or madness. I surround all difficult situations with peace and love."
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"It is a question of our own peace and mental stability."
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"Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible."
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