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Quotes about peace
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. (Hanh Nhat)
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. (Hanh Nhat)
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. (Hanh Nhat)
Right human relations is the only true peace. (Hanh Nhat)
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace. (Hanh Nhat)
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots. (Hanh Nhat)
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. (Hanh Nhat)
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. (Hanh Nhat)
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves. (Hanh Nhat)
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace. (Hanh Nhat)
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories. (Hanh Nhat)
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. (Hanh Nhat)
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. (Hanh Nhat)
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace. (Hanh Nhat)
Peace is produced by war. (Hanh Nhat)
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. (Hanh Nhat)
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. (Hanh Nhat)
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. (Hanh Nhat)
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. (Hanh Nhat)
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. (Hanh Nhat)
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. (Hanh Nhat)
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. (Hanh Nhat)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Hanh Nhat)
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. (Hanh Nhat)
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles. (Hanh Nhat)
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