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Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? -- Lorraine Hansberry
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence. -- Pervez Musharraf
I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence. -- Muhammad Ali
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. -- Sandra Cisneros
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge. -- Hiawatha
Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time. -- George Voinovich
Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence. -- Adolfo Perez Esquivel
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace. -- Kailash Satyarthi
Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace. -- Ban Ki-moon
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel. -- John Boehner
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence. -- Alcee Hastings
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace. -- Leon Bourgeois
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace. -- Rob Bell
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. -- Nelson Mandela
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security. -- Abdallah II
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?' -- Steven Pinker
I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence. -- Dave Matthews
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say. -- Cindy Sheehan
For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace. -- Beeban Kidron
Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231 -- Stanley Hauerwas
Violence is not the answer but neither is peace. -- Roxane Gay
If you want peace, you won't get it with violence. -- John Lennon
The God of peace is never glorified by human violence. -- Thomas Merton
Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere. -- John F. Kerry
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence. -- Colman McCarthy
Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'! -- Narendra Modi
Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence. -- Nigel Farage
Violence is stupid. Peace is prosperous. Education is necessary. Practice proper Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net -- David Chiles
Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom. -- Amrita Pritam
In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace. -- Kenneth Branagh
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace. -- Marianne Williamson
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat. -- Puff Daddy
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process -- Johan Galtung
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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. -- Barack Obama
Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity. -- Debasish Mridha
On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence -- Kofi Annan
Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence. -- Dalai Lama
The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood. -- Narendra Modi
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are -- Jonathon Porritt
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war. -- Pope Francis
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. -- Jane Roberts
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. -- Anthony Eden
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. -- Condoleezza Rice
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence. -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence. -- Sathya Sai Baba
My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind. -- Gabrielle Union
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. -- Wendell Berry
Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation. -- Gary L. Francione
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. -- Dalai Lama
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. -- Frank Herbert
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork. -- Thomas Merton
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Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace. -- George W. Bush
Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence. -- Widad Akrawi
3. War Peace & Action - 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred,Violence not by violence,Disappear hatred and violence,By love, understanding, non-violence.[241] - 3B -- Munindra Misra
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud. -- Henry Hazlitt
On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace. -- Kofi Annan
May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace. -- Pope Francis
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness. -- Deepak Chopra
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. -- Dorothy Thompson
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. -- Dorothy Thompson
Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible. -- Nhat Hanh
Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart. -- Dalai Lama
Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace? -- Katie Hopkins
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. -- Yitzhak Rabin
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today. -- Bill Ayers
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation. -- Wendell Berry
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want. -- Nelson Mandela

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