Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. – John Holmes

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. – Silvia Cartwright

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Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi

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How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together! -Marsha P. Johnson

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. – William Hazlitt

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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.– William E. Gladstone

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Poetry is the human soul entire Squeezed like a lemon or a lime, Drop by drop into atomic words". ― Langston Hughes

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