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Quotes About Peace

About fifteen minutes into the drive, Conlan gave up singing the sad song of his people and fell asleep.
~ Ilona Andrews
The greatest evil that can oppress civilized peoples derives from wars, not, indeed, so much from actual present or past wars, as from the never-ending and constantly increasing arming for future war.
~ Immanuel Kant
A league of a special sort must . . . be established, one that we can call a league of peace, which will be distinguished from a treaty of peace because the latter seeks merely to stop one war, while the former seeks to end all wars forever.
~ Immanuel Kant
The spirit of trade cannot coexist with war, and sooner or later this spirit dominates every people.
~ Immanuel Kant
Treaty of Peace Shall Be Held Valid in Which There Is Tacitly Reserved Matter for a Future War";
~ Immanuel Kant
The character of the species, as it is indicated by the experience of all ages and all peoples, is this: that taken collectively (the human race as one whole), it is a multitude of persons, existing successively and side by side, who cannot do without associating peacefully and yet cannot avoid constantly offending one another.
~ Immanuel Kant
No nation shall forcibly interfere with the constitution and government of another.
~ Immanuel Kant
Gustavo Solivellas dice: Incluso los filósofos elogiarán la guerra como ennobleciendo a la humanidad, olvidando al griego que dijo: La guerra es mala porque engendra más mal que el que mata (Immanuel Kant)
~ Immanuel Kant
KövetkezÅ'leg a háborúba önmagában valami belsÅ' méltóságot helyeznek, annyira, hogy annak olykor még filozófusok is, mint az emberiség bizonyos megnemesülésének, dicsÅ'ítÅ' beszédet tartanak, megfeledkezve ama görögnek mondásáról: "A háború abban rossz, hogy több rossz embert csinál, mint amennyit elpusztít.
~ Immanuel KANT (1724 - 1804)
Nietzsche spoke for the samurai heart when he wrote, "You are to be proud of your enemy; then, the success of your enemy is your success also." Indeed valor and honor alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
Tranquillity is courage in repose.
~ Inazo Nitobe
When, when will the state finally recognize that it has no higher duty than to safeguard the happiness of the millions of ordinary people? When finally will the state forget about the ideals that ignore the needs of simple everyday life? And when will it understand that a small step, however difficult it may be, taken in the direction of peace for the individual, as for nations, is greater than victory in battle?
~ Inge Scholl
The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.
~ Inglath Cooper
Draga moja prijateljice, imam sezdeset godina, ne plasim se smrti! - Zasto onda odlazite? - Ne mogu da podnesem ovaj haos, ove izlive mrznje, odvratni prizor rata. Otici cu u beki miran kutak, na selo. Zivecu od ono malo para sto mi je ostalo dok se ljudi ponovo ne dozovu pameti.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Nel cuore di ogni uomo e di ogni donna resta una specie di Eden dove non ci sono né morte né guerre, dove le belve e le cerbiatte giocano in pace. Si tratta solo di ritrovare quel paradiso, rifiutando di vedere tutto il resto
~ Irene Nemirovsky
The sound of his boots Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It would pass. The occupation would end. There would be peace, blessed peace. The war and the tragedy of 1940 would be no more than a memory, a page in history, the names of battles and treaties children would recite in school, but as for me, for as long as I live, I will never forget the low, regular sound of those boots pacing across the floorboards.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
They slept so soundly, though, nothing would wake them before daybreak. That was obvious. They could pass from sleep to death without even realising it.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
For years, everything done in France within a certain social class has had only one motive: fear. This social class caused the war, the defeat and the current peace. The Frenchmen of this caste hate no one; they feel neither jealousy nor disappointed ambition, nor any real desire for revenge. They're scared.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Planes," Florence replied, looking up at the sky. "Won't they leave me the hell alone?" he thundered. He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy. It was like a shrill, brutal trumpet shattering the fragile crystal walls he'd taken such pains to build in order to shut out the rest of the world.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
?i rezonanÈ›a uman? a acestor vorbe, gestul, tot ce dovedea f?r? putin?? de t?gad? c? nu era un monstru însetat de sânge, ci un soldat ca ceilalÈ›i sparser? deodat? gheaÈ›a între sat È™i german, între ??ran È™i invadator.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
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~ Irene Nemirovsky
Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.
~ Ira Byock
Sometimes God Calms the Storm…Sometimes He Lets the Storm Rage and Calms His Child.
~ Ira Byock
for what it is worth, when people have been fighting cancer for a long time, as you have, there often comes a point at which they may live longer if they decide to live with their cancer rather than continue to fight against their cancer.
~ Ira Byock