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" In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. "
Desmond Tutu
Peace
Society
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" 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. "
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" But only art and music have the power to bring peace. "
Yoko Ono
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" Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge. "
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" I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table. "
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" Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired of living in a perpetual state of war where the enjoyment of liberty was rendered useless by the uncertainty of its preservation. They sacrificed a portion of this liberty so that they could enjoy the remainder in security and peace. "
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" China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and upholder of international order. "
Xi Jinping
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" I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different. "
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" It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. "
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" Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. "
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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. "
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" Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way. "
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" Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it. "
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