 | "We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
- Anton Chekhov
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| "We make war that we may live in peace."
- Aristotle
, Nichomachean Ethics. |
| "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
- Baruch Spinoza
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| "The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death."
- Cicero
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| "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| "Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus
, De Rei Militari. |
| "If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known."
- George C. Marshall
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| "Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war ?"
- Hermocrates of Syracuse
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| "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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| "The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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