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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.


Baruch Spinoza

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposit...
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BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, co...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BENEDICT SPINOZA Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
HARRISON FORD The absence of war is not peace.
HARRY S TRUMAN True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
JANE ADDAMS Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.
LAINI TAYLOR Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
VICTOR HUGO To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
BARRY GOLDWATER Peace must be more than the absence of war,
HELMUT KOHL They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true p...
RONALD REAGAN Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of sou...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of so...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.
CHARLES LINDBERGH Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of sou...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Strength is not a virtue of the strong but an illusion of the weak
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ ...My deepest personal reason for staying in Paris is that whatever I have as a character, good or b...
WILLIAM C. BULLITT Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make ar...
MAX STROM She was a vixen when she went to school;
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a cr...
JEAN WEBSTER A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
SIR JAMES GLOVER A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
LORD MORAN Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those wh...
CRISS JAMI It’s crucial to be able to gather enough inner strength to rise up from the ashes like the Phoenix...
SAHARA SANDERS Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
PETE HEGSETH PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it
MAHATMA GANDHI Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it
A. J. MUSTE Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to ...
LORD MORAN When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are n...
THOMAS HUYNH Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate...
G. K. CHESTERTON It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA It is not enough to say, 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it....
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELL "War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength
GEORGE ORWELL Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one
who hated what was not virt...
CONFUCIUS I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it’s Dad?” Tyler told me....
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
RUDYARD KIPLING At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded."... They might as well h...
DONALD O. CLIFTON World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I t...
DALAI LAMA XIV Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based s...
DARREN SHAN My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep ...
PAULO COELHO This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the s...
E. STANLEY JONES War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELL True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
DAVID HARE My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing a...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI God has given every man incomparably great power to reach the highest calling in life.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when...
E. STANLEY JONES If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the wor...
HENRY KISSINGER Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK The means to peace is a war, but the means to a war is not a peace, we humans are. Human beings are ...
EPHDAN A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
SAUL BELLOW These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the re...
ABIGAIL ADAMS When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Just as war is more the absence of love than the presence of hate, and darkness is the absence of li...
UNKNOWN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Strength is the vitality and virility of Wisdom. Beauty is the apparitional status of Wisdom. Wisdom...
AARON SANTOS But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said.
"We know us,...
RUTA SEPETYS Happiness isn’t in the absence of problems but the strength to overcome.
ANE KRSTEVSKA Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
RONALD REAGAN The Cheers' character Lilith is not based on the Jewish myth,
BEBE NEUWIRTH The ‘Cheers' character Lilith is not based on the Jewish myth,
BEBE NEUWIRTH The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
KARL MARX Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.
C.S. LEWIS Strength of character determines one’s will power. When a dream which looks impossible, seems poss...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Punctuality has been called a “homely, but solid virtue.” Although it is not fancy, it is a stro...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Probably not 'War and Peace,' but probably a lot of sports clips,
GREG DYKE The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the ch...
ABHIJIT NASKAR It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost i...
ARISTOTLE When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
NEAL A. MAXWELL The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
JONATHAN LARSON We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of livin...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
HENRY DRUMMOND A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
HENRY VAN DYKE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes fr...
OLI ANDERSON Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.
MONICA FAIRVIEW That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habit...
BLAISE PASCAL What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, ...
ABDULLAH ABDULLAH We don't like war, but we are not afraid of war either. You can't bring peace by being afraid of war...
SOMAWANSA AMARASINGHE It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...
JOHN CONNOLLY Each of the scars, the chipped teeth and broken claws, the mutilated tail—­they ­weren’t the m...
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BERNARD BARUCH The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCH Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use i...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before ...
BERNARD BARUCH Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH Effects of Fear and Anger on Perceived Risks of Terrorism. People want to be treated as adults. They...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF With things of a human origin, it's harder to objectively figure out the probabilities. To the best ...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF This is a case where they did an exceptionally good job on the natural science and a really poor job...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF I don't know if the learning is as systematic as it needs to be.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowa...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF I don't see anybody talking in terms of shame. I don't see any soul-searching.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF The medical experts' estimates suggest this is a bigger risk than anything else we are facing.
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