AriesMotto: I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" - Eve Merriam
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. - Billie Holiday
Taurus
Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way. - May Sarton
Gemini
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeannette Rankin
Cancer
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. - Helen Keller
Leo
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. It is a gesture as strong as war. - Mary Roberts Rinehart
Virgo
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. - Geraldine Ferraro
Libra
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Scorpio
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. - Dorothy Day
Sagittarius
All war is insane. - Madeleine L'Engle
Capricorn
No war, not even to punish an aggressor, is a good thing. Today people must learn to take into account each others' interests, if only for the sake of their own survival. - Raisa M. Gorbachev
Aquarius
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption that the best man will win is not at all justified. It might equally be argued that the worst, the most unscrupulous man will win, although history will continue the absurd game by finding him after all the best man. - Germaine Greer
Pisces
Out of love for eternal peace, I would suffer ... - Anais Nin
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