Society, Justice & Peace: Peace Quotes

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"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity"

George Soros, Businessman

"Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Today we are in a war against war - music is our power"

Michael Franti, Musician

"When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly"

John Avlon, Writer

"We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"Power to the peaceful!"

Michael Franti, Musician

"The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger"

John Avlon, Writer

"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"We think that the Kyoto Protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance"

Goran Persson, Politician

"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"I ain't never liked violence"

Sugar Ray Robinson, Athlete

"The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years, maybe"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic, and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace"

River Phoenix, Actor

"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Isolationism is over"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace!"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies"

Terry Waite, Author

"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires"

Alan Autry, Actor

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