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