Peace Quotes

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

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"Peace comes through understanding."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Peace is the goal of all conflict."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Immanuel Kant
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"I have protested against the domination of brutal force."
Immanuel Kant
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"True peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice."
Hannah Arendt
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"If the world were wholly just, there would be no need for coercive institutions."
Robert Nozick
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"Stability of a just society depends on citizens having a sense of justice."
John Rawls
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"A well-ordered society is stable when its members support its basic structure from a sense of justice."
John Rawls
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"A conception of justice is stable only if citizens voluntarily support it."
John Rawls
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"Overlapping consensus provides stability that comprehensive doctrines cannot."
John Rawls
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"The reasonable pluralism of democratic societies calls for principles all could endorse."
John Rawls
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"A well-ordered society exhibits harmony between institutional design and citizens' conceptions of justice."
John Rawls
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"Civil society requires that citizens respect the reasonable pluralism necessary in free societies."
John Rawls
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"Justice requires that we account for the reasonable disagreements that characterize pluralistic societies."
John Rawls
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"Justice as fairness is compatible with diverse comprehensive conceptions of the good life."
John Rawls
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"A stable just society requires citizens to develop a sense of justice as a moral sentiment."
John Rawls
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"A well-ordered society exhibits stability because citizens endorse its fundamental principles."
John Rawls
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"A stable and just society exhibits harmony between its principles and citizens' sense of justice."
John Rawls
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"Conflict management requires acknowledging the permanence of potential enmity."
Carl Schmitt
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"The price of peace is eternal vigilance."
Isaiah Berlin
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"We are bound together by our shared humanity and separated by our different visions of how to live."
Isaiah Berlin
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"War is a state of injustice, and peace is always the goal of nations."
Immanuel Kant
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"All conflict arises from inadequate understanding."
Baruch Spinoza
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"A stable society requires principles that citizens can publicly endorse."
John Rawls
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"A society achieves stability for the right reasons when citizens freely endorse its principles."
John Rawls
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"Reasonable disagreement about comprehensive doctrines is a permanent feature of free societies."
John Rawls
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"A well-ordered society is stable when its members accept its principles of justice as justified."
John Rawls
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"Hatred is like fire, it consumes itself"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Peace comes from understanding necessity"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Peace is not merely an absence of war."
John Locke