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Peace Will

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

- Dorothy Thompson

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- Neil Tennant

Other quotes by Dorothy Thompson

Feeling End Nothing

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

- Dorothy Thompson

Violence Peace

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

Force

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

- Dorothy Thompson

Fear Mind

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

- Dorothy Thompson

Nature Age Years People

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

- Dorothy Thompson

Home Men

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

- Dorothy Thompson

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- Robert Foster Bennett

Peace Hope Man

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

- Pope Benedict XVI

Peace

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

- Bryan Ferry

Peace Women First

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

- Eddie Bernice Johnson

Longing Germany Desire Peace Hope

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

- Bryant H. McGill

Peace Hope End Will

I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with it. My decision totally.

- Freddie Prinze