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VICTORY
Those
who prefer victory to peace will have neither - Anonymous
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"Peace
is not a matter of prizes or trophies.
It is not the product of a victory or command.
It has no finishing line, no final deadline,
no fixed definition of achievement."
-- Oscar
Arias Sanchez
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Peace
is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile
of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father,
the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement
of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of
truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.
-- Menachem
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"Inner
peace is beyond victory or defeat."
-- Bhagavad Gita
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"Rome
was not built in a day
Opposition will come your way
But the harder the battle you see
It's the sweeter the victory"
-- Jimmy
Cliff
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The
god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace
gives victory to both sides.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Satisfaction
does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full
effort is full victory. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
“Joy
lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering
involved, not in the victory itself” -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
"Victory
attained by violence is tantamount to defeat for it
is only momentary." -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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No
matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well
as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~ Al
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The
pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few
years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of
peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its
successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never
abandoned.
--Dag
Hammarskjold
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"It
is important to remind young people that peace is
the only victory."
-- Scarlett
Johansson
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Certain
peace is better and safer than anticipated victory
-- Livy (c 29BC)
Be ashamed
to die until you have won some victory for humanity
-- Horace Mann
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It
is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won.
Never mind that history books tell us the opposite.
The psychological and material costs of war are so high
that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can
be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed
conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes
of individual and collective violence: injustice and
oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination.
We must construct a new set of values and attitudes
to replace the culture of war which, for centuries,
has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning
peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish,
on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance
and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
-- Federico
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It
is not the critic who counts, not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of
deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to
the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly,
who errs and comes short again and again, who knows
the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends
himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement
and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while
daring greatly so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who know neither victory
nor defeat.
-- Theodore
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For
love of domination we must substitute equality;
for love of victory we must substitute justice;
for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for
competition we must substitute cooperation. We must
learn to think of the human race as one family.
-- Bertrand
Russell
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If a
victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish
it from a defeat.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To
be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic.
It is based on the fact that human history is a history
not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice,
courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in
this complex history will determine our lives. If
we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to
do something. If we remember those times and places
-- and there are so many -- where people have behaved
magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and
at least the possibility of sending this spinning
top of a world in a different direction. And if we
do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait
for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite
succession of presents, and to live now as we think
human beings should live, in defiance of all that
is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
-- Howard
Zinn
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