"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."
A Course In Miracles
"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."
Martin Amis
"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live." Marcus Aurelius
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace." Bernard M. Baruch
"When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace."
St. Catherine of Genoa
"There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories."
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
"What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace."
Joseph Conrad
"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
Moshe Dayan
"That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world." Benjamin Disraeli
"A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war." Henry Van Dyke
"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police." Albert Einstein
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