A collection of quotes on the topic of war, peace, world, can.
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— Zhang Zai Chinese philosopher 1020 - 1077
Complete Works of Master Zhang, "Supplements to Reflections on Things at Hand", as quoted in Wang Chunyong's Famous Chinese Sayings Quoted by Wen Jiabao, trans. Chan Sin-wai (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2009), p. 10
Original: (zh) 为天地立心，为生民立命，为往圣继绝学，为万世开太平。
„True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.“
— Jane Addams pioneer settlement social worker 1860 - 1935
„Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy“
— Seneca the Younger Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4 - 65 BC
Letter XXVII
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)
Original: (la) Sola virtus praestat gaudium perpetuum, securum; etiam si quid obstat, nubium modo intervenit, quae infra feruntur nec umquam diem vincunt.
Context: Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.
— Benjamin Creme artist, author, esotericist 1922 - 2016
Maitreya's Teachings - The Laws of Life (2005)
„I'm not a warmonger. And I’m not a pacifist either. But I like peace.“
— Joseph Kabila President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 up to 2018. 1971
As quoted in "For Congo’s Leader, Middling Reviews" https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/world/africa/04kabila.html?hpw (4 April 2009), by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times
„War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book The Kite Runner
Baba (115)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
— Brigham Young Latter Day Saint movement leader 1801 - 1877
Journal of Discourses 3:224 (March 2, 1856)
1850s
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
Quote of Vincent's letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 3 April 1878; a cited in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, 1872-1886 (1927) Constable & Co
Variant: Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 483
1870s
Context: If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.
— Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898 - 1956
Mother Courage
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)
„There is peace even in the storm“
— Vincent Van Gogh, book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
My Inventions (1919)
Context: While I have not lost faith in its potentialities, my views have changed since. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only though annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a calamity. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.
— James Martineau English religious philosopher 1805 - 1900
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 592.
„Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.“
— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
„In peace, prepare for war. In war, prepare for peace.“
— Sun Tzu ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty -543 - -495 BC
Sometimes erroneously prepended to the opening line "The art of war is of vital importance to the State", but appears to be a variation of the Roman motto "Si vis pacem, para bellum". It's not clear who first misattributed this phrase to Sun Tzu. The earliest appearance of the phrase in Google Books is 1920, when it appeared in a pharmaceutical journal, but no attribution was given then.
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