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“Dialogue between Taipei and Beijing is also a crucial way to defuse crises and ensure peace and stability. I support the 1992 consensus, the approach to cross-strait dialogue agreed to by Taiwanese officials and counterparts from the mainland, consistent with the (Republic of China) Constitution.”
Hou Yu-ih (born 1957) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hou Yu-ih (2023) cited in "Hou's 3Ds cannot protect Taiwan" on Taipei Times, 13 December 2023.
“The tragedy of the War is now to be followed by the greater tragedy of peace. The ostensible plea for the War as a struggle for the freedom of small nations now becomes clear as a War of Imperialism. The War for the so-called democratisation of Germany has now turned into a War for the crushing of the rising working class of Europe.”
Arthur MacManus (1889–1927) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fourteen Points, Halifax Division of the Socialist Labour Party, (1918)
“The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.”
Laura Esquivel (born 1950) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her congressional role in “'Like Water For Chocolate' Author Is Out With A Crime Thriller” in NPR (2016 Jul 5)
“if what I say here serves even one whit to further dedicate growing millions of Americans to fight for peace and to repel the fascist drive on free speech and thought in our country, I shall consider my rising to speak worthwhile indeed.”
Claudia Jones (1915–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a woman is going to write a Book of Peace, it is given her to know devastation. ("Fire" opening line)”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Linda wrote in her Ph.D. dissertation: "Vietnam duty provided the most unambiguous source of antiwar sentiment." War causes peace. (p227)”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see these soldiers, people coming back from the wars, and they are so wounded. They are so hurt from what they have experienced and the actions which they have made in the world. And now there is work to be done in pulling our country together and the world together. That's the work that comes after a war. It's how to make peace and how to make the world whole again. (2007)”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we imagine characters, can we cause them to appear in the real world? What if I could strongly write peace, I can cause an end to war.”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the wonderful things about the 1960s was language. There was a new language and there were wonderful new ways of describing psychedelic states, spiritual states, trying to find new words for political actions like those of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. What do you call that when you sit at the lunch counter and you don't move and you do it with peace and love?”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have said that increased production is essential to the very existence of Australia; and increased production cannot be assured without the hearty co-operation of labour and capital. Industrial peace is essential to increased production, and that in its turn cannot be assured unless labour is given its legitimate place as a full partner in production.”
Billy Hughes (1862–1952) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech during the 1919 federal election campaign (30 October 1919)
“On the welfare of Australia depends the welfare of every citizen, producer and consumer, employer and employee. Let our watchword be Australia, and as our splendid boys have fought for it and saved it let us all live and work for it. In this spirit the war was won; in this spirit and in this spirit only can we win the peace.”
Billy Hughes (1862–1952) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech during the 1919 federal election campaign (30 October 1919)
“Two hummingbirds, hovering, stuck to each other, arcing their bodies in grim determination to find what is good, what is given them to find. These are warriors distancing themselves from history. They find peace in the way they contain the wind and are gone.”
Lorna Dee Cervantes (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“European and American settlers soon took over the lands that were established for settlement of eastern tribes in what became known as Indian Territory. The Christian god gave them authority. Yet everyone wanted the same thing: land, peace, a place to make a home, cook, fall in love, make children and music. (p19)”
“We mean to have our peace, and to win it without violence, for it is violence we would overcome - the subtle spiritual and mental violence of oppression, the violence subhuman toil does to the human body.”
Dolores Huerta (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're going to say first "Viva la Causa," which is the cause of labor, peace, and health, "Viva la justicia," which is justice, and then we will say "Viva Chávez," for César, may God give him long life. And then we'll say "down with fear," abajo, and "down with let-tuce and grapes," abajo, and "down with Gallo wine." Because Gallo is on the boycott too”
Dolores Huerta (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can we live in a world of brotherhood and peace without disease and fear and oppression? Si se puede”
Dolores Huerta (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Organizing is about trying to get people to lose their fear so they know that they have power, and letting them know they don't have to go it alone-they can form a group and then a movement. And then they can bring about change. When I speak to young women I try to remind them that we will never have peace in the world until women take power.”
Dolores Huerta (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.”
Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the peace that had returned after his father finished mourning his wife for many years vanished at once. Grief returned like an army of old ants crawling into familiar holes in the soft earth of his father’s life.....”
Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No matter how much I crave peace, the gods have other plans.”
Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For so long we’ve been defenseless against the havoc the maji wreak, but now the gods have blessed us as well. We’re powerful enough to annihilate them, Inan. The only way to achieve lasting peace is to cleanse the maggots from this land.”
Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fear of everybody was that the man might give in and say, "After all, it's her life." However a thing like that is not permitted in Nigeria; you are simply not allowed to commit suicide in peace, because everyone is responsible for the other person. Foreigners may call us a nation of busybodies, but to us, an individual's life belongs to the community and not just to him or her.”
Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why make children? In the name of what? To achieve what? What legitimizes pulling a being out of nothingness, disturbing its peace, only so that it would have to take a short walk on this planet, leading back to the nothingness from which it was pulled out?”
Michel Onfray (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La puissance d'exister. Manifeste hedoniste, 2006
“It’s a 21st-century play…The overarching theme is, how do we find peace in the present? Through love, understanding and learning about our cultural and religious differences.”
Anne García-Romero first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her play Paloma in “Playwright reaches into past for a better future” in the Albuquerque Journal (2012 Jul 15)
“I haven't had a moment of peace since I first told the story, ... This whole thing has gotten out of hand. I want to talk to the FBI or someone. Half the people I see look at me as a combination Einstein, Flash Gordon, and Screwball. I wonder what my wife back in Idaho thinks. Most people tell me I'm right.”
Kenneth Arnold (1915–1984) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On June 27, 1947, as quoted (i.a.) in Harassed Saucer-Sighter Would Like to Escape Fuss, Idaho Statesman (June 28, 1947)
“Funny time when most of the poor and disinherited parts of the world could live what the other party leaves on his plate ... And we continue to sing the joy, the peace, the love ... do we really believe?”
Doris Veillette (1935–2019) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, December 22, 1973, page 37.
“As children relating to others, we learned a great deal about creating peace and prosperity. Most of us can remember Mom or Dad prying us apart from a playmate after we came to blows. ‘Who started it?’ often determined who received the most severe punishment. Even at a tender, we could see that if no one hit first, no fight was possible.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As children, we learned that if no one hits first, no fight is possible. Therefore, refraining from ‘first-strike’ force, theft, or fraud, is the first step in creating peace.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Above all, meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace that remains stable no matter what happens around us.”
Muktananda (1908–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The characteristics of Sadhuguna, Satwaguna, and peace and all such qualities, come from non-attachment. When Buddhi becomes steady, it is called Satwaguna. Sat (truth) is like letters engraved in stone. The talk of the worldly is like letters engraved on a chalk slab. (253)”
Bhagawan Nityananda (1897–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enjoy eternal peace! When the Budhi is enlightened, every man comes to know his own defects and merits. Like one's reflection in the mirror, the various desires of the mind will be visible to Budhi. (282)”
Bhagawan Nityananda (1897–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I pray for the forgiveness of everyone at the end of every prayer. If you keep your faith in Allah and His Messenger (peace be upon him), you will receive my prayers in your graves.”
Uwais al-Qarani (594–657) said by 657 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Owais Qarni and his love for Prophet, by Abu Tariq Hijazi, Arab News, (28 May 2016)
“I am constantly recharged by the different artists I work with, by the new challenges we face, and by listening to my inner voice. My trip to the ocean every year gives me great peace, and now that I am a grandfather for the first time, I am thrilled and inspired every day that I see my granddaughter because I have great hope for the future generation.”
Hugo Medrano first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On what inspires him in “An Interview with GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Hugo Medrano” in MD Theatre Guide (2011 Oct 8)
“O people of the world unite, and pave the way to peace sublime, Divided you yourself invite disastrous wars, unrest and crime.”
Gopi Krishna (yogi) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the Unseen, (1952)
“Contention arises either through error in men's judgments or else disorder in their affections. When contention does grow by error in judgment, it ceases not till men by instruction come to see wherein they err, and what it is that did deceive them; without this there is neither notice nor punishment that can establish peace in the Church.”
James Ussher (1581–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is best to avoid low company, whether they come in peace or in war.”
Jami (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First of all, what everybody must want is peace between Russia and Ukraine...”
Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why would you tempt one or another Ukrainian leadership to broaden the war, where you want above all to bring peace?”
Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was nothing boiling in him, just a loud and clear exhale, a weight of peace wrapping around his heart.”
Akwaeke Emezi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For of death, that blessed angel of mercy should not be feared. It is nature's most blessed relief and rest, for it is sleep, perfect and complete, and filled with ineffably lovely dreams. The man who has died sleeps in peace; and his spiritual soul, the peregrinating monad, gaudet in astris — rejoices in the stars. (Chapter 16)”
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What were some of these teachings? "Man, Know thyself!" For self knowledge - the knowledge of the higher spiritual Self - is the pathway of wisdom, of understanding, of light, of peace, of power; and it comes to man through self-forgetfulness, and self-forgetfulness is the knocking, the mystic knocking, at the door of the initiation-chamber of the temple. (Chapter 3)”
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is one of our Theosophical duties to show men the way to wisdom, to peace, to happiness, to strength, and to spiritual power - the real powers, the powers which are safe and clean and sweet, which make a man lovable, which make him compassionate, which guarantee that power put into his hands will be wielded never for self but always in order to benefit others.”
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many observers, including myself, had long since ceased to believe there ever was any serious intention on the part of Israel to permit a meaningful Palestinian state to come into being alongside Israel; successive far-Right election victories have exposed the true face and end game of the Israeli Right — endlessly enabled by the charade of the so-called US “peace process.”
Graham E. Fuller (1936–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fate of the Palestinians, Lobe Log, June 9, 2019
“Sustainable peace and security require good bilateral relations and regional cooperation between Tehran and Riyadh. Iran and Saudi Arabia have significant differences, but they share common interests in many critical issues, such as energy security, nuclear nonproliferation, and Middle East stability.”
Hossein Mousavian (born 1957) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: It’s Time for the Leaders of Saudi Arabia and Iran to Talk; Seyed Hossein Mousavian and Abdulaziz Sager, The New York Times (14 May 2019)
“Pacifists lose the war; aggressors lose the peace.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only the dead find peace, only the living desire it.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The overwhelming view of the international community is clear: an immediate humanitarian ceasefire is the overriding priority. We will not stop but continue to make our efforts to save lives, to uphold justice and to pursue peace.”
Zhang Jun (born 1960) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zhang Jun (2023) cited in "'US veto on Gaza ceasefire 'disappointing and regrettable': China" on TRT World, 9 December 2023.
“He [Rasputin] is just a good, religious, simple-minded Russian. When in trouble or assailed by doubts, I like to have a talk with him, and I invariably feel at peace with myself afterward.”
Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reason for government's existence is to ensure the provision of the means and the environment for all to prosper and live in peace.”
Yemi Osinbajo (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There can be no Russian networks in Europe that split the EU from within, those that are trying to help Russia make as much money as possible even now. Everyone knows very well who in the European Union opposes humanity and common sense, and who does nothing at all to help establish peace in Ukraine. This must stop, and Europe must stop listening to any excuses from officials in Budapest.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (born 1978) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (March 29, 2022)