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“WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.”

“The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.”

Christian Pain Asks Justice Exercise Crosses Forgiving Ignored Incentives Exhibits Degenerates Peacemaking Asking For Forgiveness Appeasement

Book:The Cross of Christ

Source: The Cross of Christ

“How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.”

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Author:Oscar Arias

“There is no path to peace; peace is the path.”

Life Peace Path Peacemaking Peaceful Warrior

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter – it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.”

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Author:Morihei Ueshiba

“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.”

Ifs Mind War States Can Do Powerful Most Powerful State Of Mind Insignificant Peacemaking Tribunals Abstaining

Book:The Treason of the Intellectuals

Source: The Treason of the Intellectuals

“Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.”

War Enemy Soldier Damage Over It Get Over Civilians Peacemaking

Author:Paul Fussell

“War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.”

War Action Father Wealth Economic Arms Labor All Things Essence Profession Making Peace Conqueror Peacemaking

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“You can't shake hands with a closed fist.”

“I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.”

Knows Might Running Action Violence Risk Victory Mad Non Violence Peacemaking Embarking

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.”

Enemy Five Pride Ambition Envy Avarice Peacemaking

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.”

Warfare Peacemaking

Author:Pope Francis

“Imagine all the people living life in peace.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”

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Author:Desiderius Erasmus

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