Peace Quotes
Not just the absence of war, but the presence of justice, understanding, and inner calm.
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"The peace we seek is the peace of the grave."Bataille, Georges
"Compromise is the oil of diplomacy."Gramsci, Antonio
"Peace requires justice, not merely the absence of war."Gramsci, Antonio
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the resolution of contradictions."Lukács, György
"Murder begins in the denial of the other's face."Levinas, Emmanuel
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the covenant of responsibility."Levinas, Emmanuel
"Forgiveness is not the erasure of violence but the overcoming of vengeance."Levinas, Emmanuel
"Violence begins when I reduce the other to my categories."Levinas, Emmanuel
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."Russell, Bertrand
"The world needs open hearts and open minds, and there is no time to lose."Russell, Bertrand
"Silence is sometimes an art."Russell, Bertrand
"The only thing that achieves peace is the ability to think for yourself."Russell, Bertrand
"Peace without freedom is merely the peace of the cemetery."Marcuse, Herbert
"Peace requires the dismantling of structural violence."Marcuse, Herbert
"We mistake security for peace and call our prisons homes."Bataille, Georges
"Peace requires the dissolution of the mechanisms of domination."Horkheimer, Max
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the end of domination."Horkheimer, Max
"Discourse presupposes a commitment to resolving disputes through rational means."Habermas, Jürgen
"Communication is threatened when strategic considerations dominate."Habermas, Jürgen
"We should aim for a world where communication is not distorted by power."Habermas, Jürgen
"We are pacified by comfort while remaining fundamentally unfree"Marcuse, Herbert
"The price of peace without justice is perpetual violence."Horkheimer, Max
"Peace purchased through silencing dissent is purchased too dearly."Horkheimer, Max
"The challenge of pluralism is how to achieve solidarity without homogeneity."Habermas, Jürgen
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the overcoming of domination itself."Adorno, Theodor
"Peace is not a state to be achieved but a constant negation of domination."Adorno, Theodor
"Peace achieved through acceptance of injustice is armed truce"Marcuse, Herbert
"Peace as absence of war allows structural violence to continue"Marcuse, Herbert
"The expansion of communicative rationality is essential for resolving contemporary conflicts."Habermas, Jürgen
"Peace cannot be achieved through the suppression of real social antagonisms."Lukács, György