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" I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. "

Mos Def

Humanity

Peace

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" In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. "

" Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security. "

" To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. "

" Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. "

" That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. "

" We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace. "

" Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone. "

" Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. "

" First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. "

" Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. "

" People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. "

" Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. "

" I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. "

" The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. "

" Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. "

" Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. "

" Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. "

" Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. "

" I say that building peace is like building a cathedral. You have to have a solid base, and then you do it brick by brick. But the process is irreversible. There's no way back. "

" Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. "

" I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that. "

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" Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught. "

" Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. "

" The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. "

" Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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" Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge. "