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• Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

  Brian Celio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Peace

• The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

  David Amram

  Topics in Society, Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

• Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don’t know if I would wish for world peace.

  Brendan Fraser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, World, Peace

• Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

  Daniel Pipes

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  Tags in Peace

• A people free to choose will always choose peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Peace, Choose

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  Daniel But Boone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

• I fought for peace in the fifties.

  Pete Seeger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

• It’s odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

  Pete Hamill

  Topics in America

  Tags in Peace

• Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they’d accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

  Boutros Boutros Ghali

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Peace

• We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

  Boutros Boutros Ghali

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Peace, Simple

• The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

  Boutros Boutros Ghali

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Peace

• The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

  Boutros Boutros Ghali

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Problem

• I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Stress

• I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Daily

• Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Lost, Remember

• Never underestimate or mock peace.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Mock

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

  Pervez Musharraf

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Peace

• Myself, I don’t think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can’t impose a solution.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Ever

• Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

  Darrell Issa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

• Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Understand, Peace