Peaceful quotes
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"I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is passive. I don't go for anybody who advocates passivism or peaceful suffering in any form whatsoever. I don't go for it."
"To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us."
"The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out."
"Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode."
"There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just."
"Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself."
"For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious."
"Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful."
"Inside Junior's it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly."
"I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot."
"When you hear someone delivering a divisive message, that's endangering our country that you stay up and say, you know, as an American, I do not think what you're saying is good and right. And if you do in a peaceful manner, you have every right."
"Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others."
"I live in a peaceful world because I choose to think loving and peaceful thoughts."
