Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.
- The XIVth Dalai Lama

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein (1979-1955)

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
- Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)


It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
- Andre Gide (1869-1951)

If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
- Matthew, V:9

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
- Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990)

If you want peace, work for justice. (not fight!)
- Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)

f we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Theresa (1910-1997)



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