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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Thomas a Kempis
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
John Foster Dulles
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.
Benjamin Netanyahu
I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.
Virginia Woolf
That tastes like hope feels.
John Green
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
Leo Tolstoy
The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.
Chuck Hagel
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
Edvard Munch
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
Albert Camus
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan
