Peace Quotes

Not just the absence of war, but the presence of justice, understanding, and inner calm.

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"Peace cannot be achieved through force."
Karl Popper
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"Nothing is better than peace."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Peace is the highest good."
Ludwig von Mises
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"The most important function of government is the maintenance of peace."
Ludwig von Mises
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"The role of the intellectual is to create a constituency for peace."
Noam Chomsky
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"Peace is built on justice, not merely the absence of war."
Noam Chomsky
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"The pursuit of peace must be as rigorous as the pursuit of war."
Noam Chomsky
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"Peace begins in the quieting of the restless mind."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the wisdom to engage with it constructively."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the ability to manage it constructively."
Karl Popper
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"Civilization rests on the foundation of voluntary exchange."
Ludwig von Mises
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"The world improves through the voluntary cooperation of individuals."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Peace is more valuable than any material possession."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Peace cannot be built on a foundation of injustice."
Noam Chomsky
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"Solidarity across differences is the only real basis for social transformation."
Noam Chomsky
"Peace begins in the recognition of common structures beneath surface differences."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Peace requires the courage to be changed by others."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Peaceful cooperation is possible only when men are free to pursue their own interests within a framework of law."
Ludwig von Mises
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"The greatest threat to peace is not military power, but the ignorance of economic law."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Voluntary exchange is the foundation of all peaceful human cooperation."
Ludwig von Mises
"All cultures are equally valid ways of organizing human experience."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Acceptance of difference is the foundation of peace."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The paradox of tolerance is that unlimited tolerance leads to the disappearance of tolerance."
Friedrich Hayek
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"Peace is the highest good."
Jérémie Bentham
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"We must plan for freedom, and this means we must plan to keep the use of force in the hands of the public authorities."
Karl Popper
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"Peace is built on the foundation of individual and collective responsibility."
Karl Popper
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but its creative resolution."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind."
Noam Chomsky
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the wisdom to resolve it."
Cesare Beccaria
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"Peace cannot be imposed; it must be built on the foundation of mutual respect."
Cesare Beccaria