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Peace
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Cultivate inner, outer peace.
Peace is more than just the absence of war; it's a state of harmony and well-being characterized by justice, equity, and mutual respect among individuals and nations. It is the foundation for human flourishing, allowing for collaboration, creativity, and the pursuit of a meaningful life free from fear and violence.
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# Peace & Nobel Peace Prize laureates
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Aung San Suu Kyi" (Quotes, Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995):
"Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing " in the Video recording August 31, 1995 (august 31, 1995))
"Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing " in the Video recording August 31, 1995 (august 31, 1995))
“I thank you”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
1945 births
Living people
Politicians from Myanmar
Heads of government
Context: • Speech at Benedictine University (5 October 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2004)
“No one is pro-abortion.”
— Barack Obama
1961 births
African Americans
Autobiographers from the United StatesL
Context: • Positive pluses and negative pluses.
• Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
• Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
“Dodatnie i ujemne plusy.”
— Lech Walesa
Heads of state
Labor activists
Presidents of Poland
Human rights activistsContext: • Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address (January 20, 2015)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2015)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2015)
“It's time to close Gitmo.”
— Barack Obama
Context: • When asked by a reporter if he thought the Berlin Wall should be dismantled (May 1989), as quoted in "How Reagan and Gorbachev sowed 'seeds of freedom'" in National Post (6 November 2009)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Mikhail Gorbachev" (Quotes, 1980s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Mikhail Gorbachev" (Quotes, 1980s)
“Why not?”
— Mikhail Gorbachev
1931 births
2022 deaths
General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Academics from Russia# Peace & United States presidential candidates
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Context: • Webby Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech (limited to 5 words) (6 June 2005).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Al Gore" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Al Gore" (Quotes)
“Please don't recount this vote.”
— Albert Arnold Gore
Environmentalists from the United States
Businesspeople from the United States
Nobel Peace Prize laureates
1948 birthsContext: • On Manmohan Singh, (4 April 2009)http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-04-04/india/28002745_1_obama-climate-change-wonderful-man
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2009)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2009)
“Manmohan Singh is a wise, wonderful man.”
— Barack Obama
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2010, State Of The Union (January 2010):
Full transcript on CNN.)
Full transcript on CNN.)
“Let's try common sense. A novel concept.”
— Barack Obama
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Context: • Message to Congress (7 December 1915)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Woodrow Wilson" (Quotes, 1910s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Woodrow Wilson" (Quotes, 1910s)
“We have stood apart, studiously neutral.”
— Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Governors of New Jersey
Presidents of the United States
Academics from the United States
Politicians from VirginiaContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2009, A New Beginning (June 2009):
Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (4 June 2009), Full text at Wikisource)
Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (4 June 2009), Full text at Wikisource)
“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
— Barack Obama
# Peace & Nobel laureates from the United States
“My job is to hold power to account.”
— Maria Ressa
Journalists from the United States
Non-fiction authors from the United States
Women authorsT
Context: • Speech in New York City (9 September 1912)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Woodrow Wilson" (Quotes, 1910s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Woodrow Wilson" (Quotes, 1910s)
“Liberty is its own reward.”
— Thomas Woodrow Wilson
“By 2014, the war in Afghanistan will be over.”
— Barack Obama
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2009, A New Beginning (June 2009):
Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (4 June 2009), Full text at Wikisource)
Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (4 June 2009), Full text at Wikisource)
“Islam has always been a part of America's story.”
— Barack Obama
Context: • Remarks by the President at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (April 30, 2016)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2016)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2016)
“The end of the Republic has never looked better.”
— Barack Obama
# Peace & Living people
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Context: • Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
“I am for, and even against.”
— Lech Walesa
L
Context: • I turned around by 360 degrees.
• Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
• Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
“Dokonałem zwrotu o 360 stopni.”
— Lech Walesa
U
Feminists
People from Libya1
Context: • Quoted in Dalai Lama says 'Europe belongs to Europeans', Business Times, Singapore 13 September 2018
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama" (Quotes)
“I think Europe belongs to the Europeans”
— 14th Dalai Lama
Dalai Lamas
Buddhist monks
Religious leaders
PhilosophersL
Context: • It is good that it came out that bad.
• Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
• Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
“Dobrze się stało, że źle się stało.”
— Lech Walesa
# Peace & Memoirists from the United States
Context: • Angela Davis: 'Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world' (27 Oct 2023)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Angela Davis" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Angela Davis" (Quotes)
“Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world”
— Angela Davis
Anti-war activists
1944 births
Spiritual teachersContext: • ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos (15 August 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2004)
“You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.”
— Barack Obama
Context: • On the progress with debt ceiling negotiations. USA Today (July 23, 2011): Debt talks crisis: Boehner, Obama trading blame
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2011, Remarks on the economy (July 2011))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2011, Remarks on the economy (July 2011))
“I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.”
— Barack Obama
Context: • "Obama cuts off press conference to go see 'Star Wars'", The Hill (18 December 2015)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2015)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2015)
“OK, everybody, I got to get to Star Wars.”
— Barack Obama
Context: • Campaign rally in Billings, Montana (19 May 2008)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2008)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2008)
“Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.”
— Barack Obama
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Aung San Suu Kyi" (Quotes, Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995):
"Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing " in the Video recording August 31, 1995 (august 31, 1995))
"Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing " in the Video recording August 31, 1995 (august 31, 1995))
“I thank you”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
U
Context: • George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), p. 5. In the book, these three slogans of the Party were engraved on the Ministry of Truth building.
• Source: Wikiquote: "War and peace" (Quotes, O)
• Source: Wikiquote: "War and peace" (Quotes, O)
“WAR IS PEACE.”
— Unknown
Peace
WarU
Conferences
1919
World War I
ParisPeace Conference (1919)U
Context: • Jean Jullien, as a caption to a variant of a standard Peace sign, modified to resemble the Eiffel Tower, in the wake of the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Peace" (J)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Peace" (J)
“Peace for Paris”
— Unknown
1909 births
1972 deaths
Presidents of Ghana
Catholic socialistsU
Context: • Theobald, Count of Champagne, letter to King Louis the Great (1108–1137). See Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium (Ed. Camden Society, p. 220.) Sir Kenelm Digby, letter to Lord Bristol, May 27, 1625. See his Life, pub. by Longmans. Same in Coriolanus, III, II, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 588-91
• Source: Wikiquote: "Peace" (T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Peace" (T)
“Peace with honor.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Paris Peace Conference (1919)" (Related entries:)
“League of Nations”
— Unknown
U
Women's rights activists
Context: • Quote in "Picasso", Hans L. C. Jaffe, Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Source: Wikiquote: "Pablo Picasso" (Quotes: [[File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], Attributed from posthumous publications, 1980s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Pablo Picasso" (Quotes: [[File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], Attributed from posthumous publications, 1980s)
“To find is the thing.”
— Pablo Picasso
Painters from Spain
Spanish communists
Sculptors
DesignersU
Context: • Jangan sekali-kali melupakan sejarah.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Sukarno" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Sukarno" (Quotes)
“Never forget history.”
— Unknown
Presidents of Indonesia
1901 births
1970 deaths
SocialistsD
Context: • They shall not pass.
• Radio broadcast (Madrid, 19 July 1936), during the Spanish Civil War. The leader of the Nationalist forces, Generalísimo Francisco Franco, upon capturing Madrid, is said to have remarked, Hemos pasado ("We have passed")
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dolores Ibárruri" (Quotes)
• Radio broadcast (Madrid, 19 July 1936), during the Spanish Civil War. The leader of the Nationalist forces, Generalísimo Francisco Franco, upon capturing Madrid, is said to have remarked, Hemos pasado ("We have passed")
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dolores Ibárruri" (Quotes)
“No pasarán.”
— Dolores Ibarruri
Revolutionaries
Women politicians
Journalists from SpainU
“Pax vobiscum.”
— Unknown
Context: • Speech at Benedictine University (5 October 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2004)
“No one is pro-abortion.”
— Barack Obama
L
Context: • Positive pluses and negative pluses.
• Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
• Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
“Dodatnie i ujemne plusy.”
— Lech Walesa
U
Context: • Peace be to this house.
• Vulgate Gospel of Luke 10:5; Gospel of Matthew 10:12
• Source: Wikiquote: "Peace" (L)
• Vulgate Gospel of Luke 10:5; Gospel of Matthew 10:12
• Source: Wikiquote: "Peace" (L)
“Pax huic domui.”
— Unknown
Context: • Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address (January 20, 2015)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2015)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Barack Obama" (Quotes, 2015)
“It's time to close Gitmo.”
— Barack Obama
Context: • When asked by a reporter if he thought the Berlin Wall should be dismantled (May 1989), as quoted in "How Reagan and Gorbachev sowed 'seeds of freedom'" in National Post (6 November 2009)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Mikhail Gorbachev" (Quotes, 1980s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Mikhail Gorbachev" (Quotes, 1980s)
“Why not?”
— Mikhail Gorbachev
L
Context: • Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009,
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lech Wałęsa" (Quotes)
“I am for, and even against.”
— Lech Walesa
U
Context: • Peace at any price.
• Alphonse de Lamartine, as quoted in Letters and Remains (1865) by A. H. Clough, p. 105; also used by Armand Carrel in Le Ministère de la Paix à tout prix in The National (13 March 1831).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Peace" (L)
• Alphonse de Lamartine, as quoted in Letters and Remains (1865) by A. H. Clough, p. 105; also used by Armand Carrel in Le Ministère de la Paix à tout prix in The National (13 March 1831).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Peace" (L)
“Paix à tout prix.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • War leads to peace.
• Cicero, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 22
• Source: Wikiquote: "War and peace" (Quotes, C)
• Cicero, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 22
• Source: Wikiquote: "War and peace" (Quotes, C)
“Cedant arma togæ.”
— Unknown
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