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| Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) | The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. | |
| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. | |
| Anonymous | Peace may not be the absence of war -- but it might be a good way to start. | |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944) | If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen. - (aviator and author) | |
| Benjamin Franklin | There never was a good war or a bad peace. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | I did not know that we had ever quarreled. - (when urged to make his peace with God) | |
| Herbert Hoover | Peace is not made at the council tables, or by treaties, but in the hearts of men and women. | |
| Irina Gorainoff | If people on the road salute me, I'll tell them, "Pray for the peace of the world. For peace is slow to build up, while war has the speed of lightning as a weapon of destruction. And if they ask me, "Pray for us," I will, no matter how unworthy. For time is the rhythm of eternity -- and only that which leads up to it counts. — God’s Wayfarer, The Chronicle of a Modern Pilgrim | |
| Jody Williams | Did all these weapons keep us safe from attack on September 11? No. Or will they from the next attack? No. There's no justifying spending on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan when people live on less than $2 a day.
- (1997 Nobel Peace Prize) | |
| Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) | I think it would be a good idea. - (on peace.) | |
| Mairead Corrigan Maguire | Uphold the United Nations. It's the best we have as a human family.
- (Irish peace activist) | |
| Russian proverb | External peace lasts only until the next war. | |
| Shirin Ebadi | When eighty percent of the wealth of the world belongs to one percent of the world, how can we expect peace?
- (Iranian peace activist) | |
| Steven Wright | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. | |
| Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) | If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. |
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