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" 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

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" We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. "

" An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. "

" 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. "

" Every human longs for peace and love. "

" If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. "

" I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it. "

Wole Soyinka

I Can

Quiet

" You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you. "

" Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence. "

" I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. "

" When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel. "

" One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. "

" I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned. "

" Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. "

" If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. "