~WORDS FOR PEACE, INSPIRATION & CONTEMPLATION~

I have always found inspiration in words of peace and compassion. These quotes and poems I have collected up over a number of years. They span centuries, but the message remains the same. Peace, forgiveness, goodwill and compassion are perennial wisdoms. When I need strength, clarity or comfort I reflect on them and know it is good. I hope they provide you with the same benefits. A human being

PEACE A dynamic process filled with physical, mental and spiritual well being, health, vision, imagination, wonder, capacity, growth and nourishment for all. Question: Why are we violent, but not illiterate? Answer: Were taught to read!
A student of Colman McCarthy

The Blind Man

One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read: "I am blind, please help." A poet was walking by and stopped to observe. He saw that the blind man had only a few coins in his hat. He dropped in more coins and, without asking for permission, took the sign and rewrote it. He returned the sign to the blind man and left. That afternoon the poet returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was full of bills and coins! The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if it was he who had rewritten his sign and wanted to know what he had written on it. The poet responded: "Nothing that was not true. I just wrote the message a little differently." He smiled and went on his way. The new sign read: "Today is Spring and I cannot see it." __________________________________________________ Sometimes we need to change our strategy. If we always do what we've always done, we'll always get what we've always gotten. And remember too, sometimes it's not WHAT we say, it's HOW we say it!! Email from a Friend

LOVE
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him. Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe him.

Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so he is for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself. He threshes you to make you naked He sifts you to free you from your husks. He grinds you to whiteness. He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for Gods sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of lifes heart. But if in your fear you would seek only loves peace and loves pleasure. Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of loves threshing floor. Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness; To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate loves ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the Beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran (The Prophet) *If you havent treated yourself to The Prophet by Khalil Gibran do so. It is wonderful.

The illusion is that you are a Human Being having some spiritual experiences. The reality is that you are a Spiritual Being having some human experiences.
Reality and Illusion, St. Germain

RELIGIONS & PEACE

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. --- Buddhism (Buddha) Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. --- Buddhism (Buddha) Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. --- Buddhism (Buddha) Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. --- Buddhism (Buddha) The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. --- Buddhism (Buddha) Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. --- Buddhism (Buddha) We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. --- Buddhism (Buddha) You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. --- Buddhism (Buddha) Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called God's children. --- Christianity The fruit of the spirit is love, joy and peace. --- Galatians 5:22 There is no fear in love; for perfect love casteth out fear. --- I John 4:18 Love is patient, love is kind, Love does not insist on its own way. Love bears all things, believes all things, Hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. --- I Corinthians 13:4-8 Seek peace, and pursue it. - Psalms 34:14 Now abide, faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is Love. --- I Corinthians 13:13 Follow the way of love. --- Corinthians 14:1 The Lord lives in the heart of every creature. He turns them round and round upon the wheel of Maya. Take refuge utterly in Him. By his grace you will find supreme peace, and the state which is beyond all change. --- Hinduism
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While Islam means establishment of peace, Muslim means one who establishes peace through his actions and conduct. --- Islam The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace. --- Judaism All things exist for world peace. --- Kyodan or the Church of Perfect Liberty, is a Japanese Shinshky (new religious movement) founded in 1924 A Muslim is one who surrenders to the will of Allah, and is an establisher of peace. "If a man sings of God and hears of Him, and lets the love of God sprout within him, then all his sorrows shall vanish, and in his mind, God will bestow abiding peace. --- Sikhism Peace... it comes to our souls when we realize our relationship, our openness, with the universe and all its powers, and when we realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. --- From The Sacred Pipe, Lakota Sioux Medicine Man If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart. (from Tao Te Ching) by Lao-Tse [Circa 500-600 BC]

QUOTES Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Edward Abbey Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all; 'Love is the breath of the Holy Spirit in the heart of Man'. Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks p. 30 Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are. Hafsat Abiola Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice. Lord Acton We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774 Peace is not the absence of war but the unfolding of world-wide processes making for the nurture of human life. Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Laureate The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Laureate Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Laureate

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people. John Adams (August 1765)
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In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. Alfred Adler To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. Alfred Adler None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. African Proverb In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. James Agee When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. Muhammad Ali Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist. Paula Gunn Allen Whoever knocks persistently ends by entering. Ali (600-661) Arabian caliph

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. Martin Amis How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? Isabel Allende Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. This is the secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in immediate sense experience, and a stubborn commitment to the future of our grandchildren. Such disciplined love is what has given prophets, revolutionaries, and saints the courage to die for the future they envisaged. They make their own bodies the seed of their highest hope. Ruben Alves, Tomorrows Child If these feelings of disgust all over the world could be united into common action, something effective could be done. Amnesty International, Nobel Peace Laureate Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. Marian Anderson No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. Marian Anderson War is not inevitable. Human conflicts are inevitable but war is not. War is a social institution. Institutions were created by people; therefore they can be changed. Michael Andregg, JPST program University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA We must walk in balance on the earth a foot in the spirit and a foot in the physical. Lynn Andrews, 20th century American writer and shaman We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. Maya Angelou

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. Maya Angelou Amazing Peace Maya Angelou In our joy, we think we hear a whisper. At first it is too soft. Then only half heard. We listen carefully as it gathers strength. We hear a sweetness. The word is Peace. It is loud now. Louder than the explosion of bombs. We tremble at the sound. We are thrilled by its presence. It is what we have hungered for. Not just the absence of war. But true Peace. A harmony of spirit, and comfort of courtesies. Security for our beloveds and their beloveds. We, Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at each other, then into ourselves, And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation: Peace, My Brother. Peace, My Sister. Peace, My Soul. There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace. Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations If through the U.N the world can create a stronger, more just, more benevolent and more genuine international community across all lines of religion and race, then terrorism will have failed. Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. Annamalai Swami
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Peace begins when the hungry are fed. Anonymous If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation). Anonymous African Proverb Probably a Fanti ( Ghana ) Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured. Anonymous In the struggle rewards are few. In the fact, I know of only two, loving friends and living dreams. These rewards are not so few it seems. Anonymous All the arms we need are for hugging. Anonymous Draft beer; not people. Anonymous What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. Anonymous Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. Anonymous To those who speak of the need for security I respond: Let us bomb our enemies with food. Let us shell them with medicine. Let us attack them with schools and houses. And we shall move closer to peace. Anonymous God is on everyone's side? And in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. Jean Anouilh

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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. Susan B. Anthony War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Roman Emperor The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Roman Emperor Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. Thomas Aquinas It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. Corazon Aquino Al-Harb binniddarat hayyin Seen through spectacles, war is easy Arab Proverb Charles Malik President, General Assembly, United Nations 12/15/1958 Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts. Arab Proverb The best answer comes from the man who isn't angry. Arab Proverb

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Seek education from the cradle to the grave. Arab Proverb Trust in Allah, but tether your camel. Arab Proverb When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse. Hannah Arendt, 20th-century German political philosopher and author The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt, 20th-century German political philosopher and author Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. Oscar Arias, Former President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate The great empires, manned by vast armies of soldiers, have all crumbled, but the community of hhikkus (Buddhist practitioners) has lasted more than 2500 years. The message seems to be that it is not by protecting and defending yourself that you survive, but by giving yourself away. Buddha, Karen Armstrong [John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov After each war there is less democracy to save. Brooks Atkinson (1951) In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? St. Augustine People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace. Satya Sai Baba

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We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours. Lord Baden-Powell That's all nonviolence is - organized love. Joan Baez The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. Joan Baez If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand. Joan Baez The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. Bahaullah There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used...Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. Gil Bailie It is love that allows us to give up our power to control. It is love that allows us to treat each person in our organization with respect and dignity. Love sends people around the world to serve others. Love inspires people to work with greater purpose. Dennis Bakke
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We ought to be resolved beforehand that no provocation, no temptation shall induce us to resort to the last dreadful alternative of war. May no young man ever again be faced with the choice between violating his conscience by cooperating in mass slaughter or those...who can find no better way than to conscript young men to kill. Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Laureate

Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world. Christina Baldwin War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin For those Who Love Me I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. G. Linnaeus Banks Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. Dave Barry Let us not deceive ourself: we must elect world peace or world destruction. Bernard Mannes Baruch When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor. Basil the Great

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If you live alone, whose feet will you wash? St. Basil Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. King Baudouin I, King of Belgium The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans. From the Christmas Message 2001 of HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. Heda Bejar Peace can be achieved through nonviolent means. Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, Nobel Peace Laureate The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers. Daniel Berrigan One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better. Daniel Berrigan Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. Daniel Berrigan, SJ

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Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial. Daniel Berrigan The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy. W.H. Beveridge, British Economist If you see God within every man and woman, then you can never do harm to any man or woman. If you see God in yourself, then you attain perfection. The Bhagavad Gita *I always had the feeling I was perfect. Im just having trouble manifesting my perfection. editor The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steve Biko Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. Otto Von Bismark Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. Otto Von Bismark Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God. Leon Bloy If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. Napoleon Bonaparte

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Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power, and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Pacifist theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer hanged by the Nazis in 1945. One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. David Borenstein When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? Frank Borman

Without peace of mind, life is just a shadow of its possibilities. Jean Borysenko There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity. Elise Boulding Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force. Boutros Boutros-Ghali We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children. David Bower Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. John Boyes

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We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Armistice Day speech (11 November 1948), published in Omar Bradley's Collected Writings, Volume 1 (1967)

General Omar Bradley The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. General Omar Bradley The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made. Aristide Briand, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize, 1926 The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. Vera Brittain, 1964 Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. John Buchan The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) Better than a thousand hollow words, Is one word that brings peace. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) He who can control his rising anger as a coachman controls his carriage at full speed, this man I call a good driver; others merely hold the reins. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. (Carl) Frederick Buechner . . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. (Carl) Frederick Buechner Beneath the rule of men entirely great the pen is mightier than the sword. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Don't believe everything you think. bumpersticker There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, "reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations". Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Laureate 1950 There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders. Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Laureate

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Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity. Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-1971) The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis. Edmund Burke WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. Major General Smedley Butler USMC I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis. Brett Butler No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights. Judith Butler, Interview The Believer Magazine - Issue 2 To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be the last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive, unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over fifty percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country. U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd The common people of all nations want peace. In the presence of great impersonal forces they feel individually helpless to promote it common folk, not statesmen, nor generals, nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women like the few thousand Quakers and their friends, if they devote themselves to resolute insistence on goodwill in place of force, even in the face of great disaster past or threatened, can do something to build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal sacrificial service. To this ideal humble persons everywhere may contribute. Henry J. Cadbury

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When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian liberation theologist God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve. Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian liberation theologist The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water. Cameroonian saying It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves. Albert Camus Peace is the only battle worth waging. Albert Camus (1913-1960) The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. Albert Camus (1913-1960) In contrast to the mystic, the physicist begins his enquiry into the essential nature of things by studying the material world. Penetrating into ever deeper realms of matter, he has become aware of the essential unity of all things and events. More than that, he has learnt that he himself and his consciousness are an integral part of this unity. Thus the mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. Fritjof Capra The Tao Of Physics Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. Rachel Carson

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It would be nave to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems However, with faith and perseverance, complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace. Jimmy Carter It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. Jimmy Carter We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. Jimmy Carter Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life... Jimmy Carter The spirit of human brotherhood must under-gird any political or social structure of peace if it is to last. Jimmy Carter The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? Pablo Casals Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Pablo Casals In all of his suffering, as in all of his life and ministry, Jesus refused to defend himself with force or with violence. He endured violence and cruelty so that God's love might be fully manifest and the world might be reconciled to the One from whom it had become estranged. Even at his death, Jesus cried for forgiveness for those who were executioners: "Father, forgive them" The Challenge of Peace U.S. Catholic Bishops, 1983

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. Ajahn Chah

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According to the philosophy of waging peace, our opponents are not people. Our opponents are the ignorance and misunderstandings that hold people hostage. Our opponents are hatred, greed, fear, apathy, oppression, and injustice. To defeat hatred, we cannot use hatred. We must use love. To defeat ignorance and misunderstandings, we cannot use guns and bombs. We must use reason, truth, and understanding. Waging peace is a philosophy and strategy that sees every so-called "enemy" as a friend being held hostage by ignorance, misunderstandings, hatred, greed, fear, etc. According to the philosophy of waging peace, all human beings are on the same team, but some of our comrades have been captured by ignorance and hatred, and we must try to free them. I explain this in more detail in my book, "The End of War: How Waging Peace Can Save Humanity, Our Planet, and Our Future." http://paulkchappell.com/other-writings/ Paul Chappell Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. Teilhard de Chardin The whole of life lies in the verb seeing. Teilhard de Chardin Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. Cesar Chavez The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. Cesar Chavez The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. Cesar Chavez There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. Cesar Chavez You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it. Cesar Chavez

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Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence. Cesar Chavez Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things. Cesar Chavez Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of nonviolence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way. Cesar Chavez Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win. Cesar Chavez Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. Cesar Chavez We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle. Cesar Chavez We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. William Ellery Channing also attributed to Jimmy Hendrix Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly. G.K. Chesterton One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. G.K. Chesterton

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Then all that has divided us will merge And then compassion will be wedded to power And then softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind And then both men and women will be gentle And then both women and men will be strong And then no person will be subject to another's will And then all will be rich and free and varied And then the greed of some will give way to the needs of many And then all will share equally in the earth's abundance And then all will care for the sick and the weak and the old And then all will nourish the young And then all will cherish life's creatures And then all will live in harmony with each other and with the earth And everywhere will be called Eden, once again. Judy Chicago If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for. Chinese Proverb There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth. Chinese Proverb Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb Women hold up half the sky. Chinese Proverb The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor. Joan Chittester, OSB Sports play a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators. Noam Chomsky One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. Winston Churchill The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. Winston Churchill Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Winston Churchill To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches. Marcus Tullius Cicero Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? Gregory Clark I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. Septima Poinsette Clark The spiral of responding to violence with violence is like a whirlpool in a river. As the water pours in, it whirls faster and faster. The only way to stop the whirlpool is to place a solid rock in the middle. Peacemakers are the called to be rocks in the whirlpool of violence. Susan Classen and Vernard Eller War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits. Major General Carl von Clausewitz, 1832

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The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. President William J. Clinton, 1997 We do not want riches, we want peace and love. Red Cloud The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices. Richard Cobden A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience. Alexander Cockburn, Irish-born American Journalist (b.1941) The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment. Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr. A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human. Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr. Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. Wilkie Collins Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832) English cleric To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius If we have harmony in our beliefs and actions, there will be love in our homes and if there is love in our homes, there will be order in the nation and if there is order in the nation, there will be peace on earth. Confucius
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Let your words be sincere and truthful and your actions honorable and careful; with such conduct you can get along even among barbarian peoples. Confucius What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace. Joseph Conrad I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family. Mairead Corrigan Maguire The ability to be insulted without retaliation creates peace in all sorts of human interactions. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. Norman Cousins We will not have peace by afterthought. Norman Cousins A church which cannot take a firm stand against war is a church which does not deserve to be believed. Harvey Cox, American Baptist theologian at Harvard Divinity School The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But, in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food we eat....So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, its indulgence. Peter Coyote When the hungry can feed themselves, peace happens. Florence Crago We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano de Crescenzo
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No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. Croesus, King of Lydia, in Herodotus' The Persian Wars Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story. Javier Perez de Cuellar To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. e.e.cummings He who has a good neighbors will sell his house for more. A good well gives water in drought, indeed, a good friend you know when you are in need. Even a good war suffers from want of bread. War is easy to go in but hard to get out of. War is not a wet nurse. Power without sense gets spoiled. He who blows into fire gets sparkles and smoke in his eyes. Czech proverbs Karel Kurka Permanent Representative of Czechoslovakia United Nations, 12 June 1959 Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our struggle must remain nonviolent and free of hatred. 14th Dalai Lama

Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. 14th Dalai Lama

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. 14th Dalai Lama

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind. Huachu Daoren The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery. Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. Clarence Darrow In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.. "Namaste." Ram Dass Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. Leonardo Da Vinci Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo Da Vinci Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system. Dorothy Day It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. Dorothy Day

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An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. Dorothy Day No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. Dorothy Day 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 Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at at time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action in the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes. Dorothy Day Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dayan If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Moshe Dayan War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death. Charles DeGaulle Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war. Dave Dellinger Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion. Lanza del Vasto

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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. Barbara Deming Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation? Barbara Deming What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others. Barbara Deming To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created. Barbara Deming Abba Poeman said about Abba Prior that every single day he made a fresh beginning. Desert Fathers and Mothers Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. Indra Devi Awaken the mind without fixing it anywhere. Diamond Sutra All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. Dhammapada

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A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame. Dhammapada Love the fellow of the resurrection, scooping up the dust and chanting "Live!" Emily Dickinson Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave. Phil Donahue No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide, "I will combat it with human love." If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force; it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it. Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives. James Douglass A happy person is not a person in a set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs American Journalist You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond

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Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. John Foster Dulles, War or Peace 1950. Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future. Jack DuVall History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born. Meister Eckhart Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. Marian Wright Edelman (b.1939) American writer Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Thomas Edison There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas Edison Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! Albert Einstein The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.... The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. Albert Einstein A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. Albert Einstein Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002). He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein We must inoculate our children against militarism, by educating them in the spirit of pacifism.... Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate. Albert Einstein Concern for man himself and his fate must always be the chief interest of all technical endeavors.... In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. Albert Einstein Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein A human being is part of the whole called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts, and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all of its beauty... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive. Albert Einstein The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service. Albert Einstein Force always attracts men of low morality. Albert Einstein We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those that are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and mis-guided. And those that have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. Albert Einstein I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. Albert Einstein Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms. For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. Albert Einstein
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Albert Einstein Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Albert Einstein I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower In the council of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953 When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Havelock Ellis We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. Havelock Ellis Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. Lucy Ellman The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. Black Elk (1863-1950) There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. Black Elk War is on its last legs; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only, How soon! Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. Ralph Waldo Emerson For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson The world's biggest arms suppliers are the U.S., U.K., Russia, France and China... They are also the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. epitomeofirony.org Sweet is war to those who do not know it. Desiderius Erasmus Dutch scholar The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Desiderius Erasmus Dutch scholar The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly. Desiderius Erasmus Dutch scholar As we work for justice and peace, we plant seeds of hope. Our hope is reflected in our faith. As we plant the seed, we see the whole tree in the seed. We not only see it, we feel it growing. We not only feel it,we taste its fruit. Ricardo Esquivia, JustaPaz, Colombia Mennonite Church
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We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands. Adolfo Perez Esquivel When the great lord passes the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts. Ethiopian proverb (example of passive resistance?) There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. Louis Farrakhan Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash, your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them. William Faulkner All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. Franois Fnelon Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Abraham Flexner, American Author (1866-1959) The taller the bamboo grows the lower it bends. Filipino proverb Carlos P. Romulo, President 4th General Assembly, United Nations 10/24/1949 All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. Oscar W. Firkins The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. Martin H. Fischer
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Abraham Flexner The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. Henry Fosdick, American Teacher We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences. M. P. Follett The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity. Charles de Foucauld The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. St. Francis of Assisi Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission--to be of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. St. Francis of Assisi Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength. St. Francis de Sales I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquility will return again. Anne Frank I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. Benjamin Franklin
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We daily make great improvements in natural philosophy there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy; the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one anothers throats. When will human reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this. Benjamin Franklin
from The War System of the Commonwealth of Nations an Address Before the American Peace Society, at its Anniversary in Boston, May 28, 1849 by Hon. Charles Sumner.

Also quoted as: I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. Benjamin Franklin He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. Benjamin Franklin He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. Benjamin Franklin They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin You can bomb the world to pieces you cant bomb it into peace. Michael Franti The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. Thomas Friedman

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It is mei sizzen net to dwaen. (Saying it is not enough.) Frisian proverb, Frisian is a Germanic group The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. Bill Frist Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others. Erich Fromm The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last. J. William Fulbright Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away. Robert Fulghum We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete or men are. Buckminster Fuller Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next. J. K. Galbraith You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi, 1966

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(From the movie, but no attribution to Gandhi can be found)

Mohandas Gandhi Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. Mohandas Gandhi We must be the change we wish to see. Mohandas Gandhi
Paraphrased from a longer paragraph. We have never been able to find that wording, although we use it also, in M.K.Gandhi's works of 98 VOLs. This is the paragraph and the source: We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do. VOL 13, Ch 153, General Knowledge About Health; Page 241, Printed in the Indian Opinion on 9/8/1913 From The Collected Works of M.K.Gandhi; published by The Publications Division, New Delhi, India." (response from Arun Gandhis office on inquiry about quote)

Buddha taught us to defy appearances and trust in the final triumph of Truth and Love. . . He taught us how to do it, because he lived what he taught. The best propaganda is not pamphleteering, but for each one of us to try to live the life we would have the world to live. Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi speaking at the Buddha Jayanti on May 18, 1924

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each. Mohandas Gandhi

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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mohandas Gandhi Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. Mohandas Gandhi Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, try the following experiment: Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have ever seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be for any use to him or to her . . . Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away. Mohandas Gandhi I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mohandas Gandhi I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. Mohandas Gandhi I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity. Mohandas Gandhi Poverty is the worst form of violence. Mohandas Gandhi Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle. Mohandas Gandhi Nonviolence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. Mohandas Gandhi Religion is but one tree with many branches. If you look only upon the branches, then you are tempted to say that there are many religions; But if you look at the whole tree, you understand that there is but one religion. Mohandas Gandhi
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. Mohandas Gandhi Economic equality is the master key to nonviolent independence. Mohandas Gandhi I must confess that I do not draw a sharp line or any distinction between economics and ethics. Mohandas Gandhi Strength doesnt come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. Mohandas Gandhi The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs, but not every mans greed. Mohandas Gandhi God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. ... If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. Mohandas Gandhi This little globe of ours is not a toy of yesterday. Mohandas Gandhi We may utilize the gifts of Nature just as we choose, but in Her books, the debits are always equal to the credits. Mohandas Gandhi If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children. Mohandas Gandhi You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul. Mohandas Gandhi

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Our country is the worldour countrymen are mankind. also quoted as My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879)

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) That which is not just is not law. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879)

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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist (18051879) You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. David Lloyd George By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first. Martha Gellhorn A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. German Proverb A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. Gersonides When the power of love Replaces the love of power, Man will have a new name: God misquoted as When the power of love overcomes the love of power there will be peace. attributed to Jimi Hendrix Sri Chinmoy (Chinmoy Kumar Ghose ) It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. Andre Gide Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. Andre Gide

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The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look. From a letter written by Fra Giovanni, 1513 In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame Nikki Giovanni, The Great Pax Whitie, 1979 We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. Gladstone also attributed to Hendrix Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger. Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In all things it is better to hope than to despair. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution. Emma Goldman All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them." Emma Goldman(1917)

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Peace is a gift, It is a gift we give to ourselves, And then to each other. Richard Goode Founder, "2 Billion Voices for Peace" project, Australia Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. Mikhail Gorbachev Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations. Mikhail Gorbachev Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value. Mikhail Gorbachev What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. Mikhail Gorbachev The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. Hildegarde Goss-Mayr Peace, she supposed, was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible. Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984) English writer and artst The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.| Gerome Gragni and James Rado, 1967 Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. James Frederick Green The two kinds of people who exist in this world [at any one time] are the decent and the indecent. Color, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Kindness, decency and behavior are what matters most. Our collective challenge, it seems, is to create a city and community where decent people of all races, ethnicities and religions can look into the faces of other decent people and see only one thing -- God's image smiling back. Rabbi Micah Greenstein
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I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again. Stephen Grellett 1773-1855 We cant become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take the time to pray with Jesus, we too will be converted in mind and heart. It wont work if we try to reason it out. The only way is through a change of heart, a coming into a way of being that is the way of Jesus. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too. Hermann Hagedorn In order to combat the culture of violence that pervades our society, the coming generation deserves a radically different education one that does not glorify war but educates for peace, nonviolence and international cooperation. The Hague Appeal, pg.13 (the use of the word combat in this peace writing is a good example of how violence pervades our society.) War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. Robert Hall 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 (1905-1961) Former UN General Secretary Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible- not to have to run away. Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961) Former UN General Secretary "Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961) Former UN General Secretary We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness. Thich Nhat Hanh
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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. Thich Nhat Hanh Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive. Thich Nhat Hanh If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. Thich Nhat Hanh In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist. Thich Nhat Hanh The real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Thich Nhat Hanh Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. Thich Nhat Hanh If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?... Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding Smile with your whole being. Thich Nhat Hanh I think we deserve our enemies and our enemies deserve us. *from Peacemaking by Thich Nhat Hanh (reflect on this from the Buddhist perspective, this is because that is. If you understand this you will also see that the same is true when Thich Nhat Hanh said; Wealth is made of poverty and poverty made of wealth.
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 Amid the Measureless How old is love? Go ask the stars. That sung creations morn; Theyll answer thee: To young are we to know when love was born. Loves depth? From heavens azure dome Let thoughts long line descend Past sun and star and worlds afar --Twill never find the end. Love breadth? Go ask those distant suns That mark lifes dim frontier; Theyll answer thee: Loves boundary Is far beyond our sphere. Loves height? Find heavens highest spire Then add infinity. If heaven ends, Love still ascends As far as soul can see. Loves weight? Take all the shining worlds That heard creations call, Each sun that sails then lift the scales, And Love outweighs them all How long Loves life? A whisper comes From Gods eternity The bells of time may cease to chime But Love lives on with Me. Calla L. Harcourt It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation. Bernard Haring Ignorance is a menace to peace. Paul P. Harris The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness." Paul P. Harris
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"The Rotary way works! But Rotary has no patent on it, for it is but the Golden Rule in action. Any person, any nation, can apply it by displacing negative hatred and fear with goodwill based upon understanding. Peace among nations is not impossible of attainment; they can find peace if they will." Paul P. Harris, January 1946 Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists. Sydney J. Harris Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need. Poul Hartling The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it. King Hassan II of Morocco (1929-1999) Either we have hope within us or we dont; it is a dimension of the soul, an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart -- not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense. Vaclav Havel We still don't know how to put morality ahead of the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility. We are still under the sway of the destructive and vain belief that man is the pinnacle of creation, and not just a part of it, and that therefore everything is permitted. We still close our eyes to the growing social, ethnic, and cultural conflicts in the world...the anonymous megamachinery we have created for ourselves no longer serves us, but rather enslaves us. Vaclav Havel Be content with such things as ye have. Hebrews we lose sight of the fact that just because we have the capacity to wage war it does not give us the right to wage war. This capacity has doomed empires in the past. Chris Hedges N.Y. Times Reporter Commencement Address, Rockford College 5/2003

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This, Thucydides wrote, is what doomed Athenian democracy; Athens destroyed itself. For the instrument of empire is war and war is a poison, a poison which at times we must ingest just as a cancer patient must ingest a poison to survive. But if we do not understand the poison of war -- if we do not understand how deadly that poison is -- it can kill us just as surely as the disease. Chris Hedges N.Y. Times Reporter Commencement Address, Rockford College 5/2003 What greater cause and what more splendid adventure can be set before the youth of the world than the endeavor to bring into being that age-old dream of saints and sages - the great Commonwealth of the World as the visible embodiment of the brotherhood of man? Arthur Henderson I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. Ernest Hemingway, American Author (1899-1961) Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway, American Author (1899-1961) Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals. Ammon Hennacy, US Labor leader I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war. Ammon Hennacy, US Labor leader You cant step twice in the same river Heraclitus He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. George Herbert He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has a need to be forgiven. Lord Herbert In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus
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You save your soul by saving someone else's body. Arthur Hertzberg Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts -- to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members. At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go. Noeleen Heyzer Peace will be when you accept it in your heart. Hiawatha Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God. Hildegard of Bingen Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard. Julia Butterfly Hill We are masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts. Napoleon Hill I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned from this war. Etty Hillesum (concentration camp victim) A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude. Etty Hillesum (concentration camp victim)

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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. Etty Hillesum I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war. Abbie Hoffman An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. Gene Hoffman Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. John Andrew Holmes The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. Oliver Wendell Holmes A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. William Hooke democracy and human rights are not an invention of the West. Jose Ramas Hortas, Nobel Peace Laureate While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. Doug Horton Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) Children are our most valuable natural resource. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964)

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hover, American President (1874-1964) We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our children to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, "Disarm! Disarm!" Julia Ward Howe Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. Kin Hubbard

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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. Charles Evans Hughes Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. Victor Hugo The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many. Hubert Humphrey We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. King Hussein I For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. King Hussein I We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future. King Hussein I The sort of peace in which we believe, and which we pursue, is comprehensive, just, and lasting. It would enable the peoples of the region to realize total development, to improve their standard of living in the framework of stability, and to live in security and dignity. This is the peace which the peoples make, and defend with conviction. King Hussein I

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The goal toward which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one's life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement. Barbara Marx Hubbard It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little better." Aldous Huxley What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Aldous Huxley A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. William Ralph Inge It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. Irish Proverb And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4 The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6

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We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. Joichi Ito But the wisdom from above is pure, first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deals,; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy. James 3:17 I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride. William James Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. Gerald Jampolsky It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice. Thomas Jefferson Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. Thomas Jefferson I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson on the Evils of War (Laurence M. Vance) I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind. I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource. Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness. Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side. I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect. We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. The insults & injuries committed on us by both the belligerent parties, from the beginning of 1793 to this day, & still continuing, cannot now be wiped off by engaging in war with one of them. I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life. The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. We have obtained by a peaceable appeal to justice, in four months, what we should not have obtained under seven years of war, the loss of one hundred thousand lives, an hundred millions of additional debt, many hundred millions worth of produce and property lost for want of market, or in seeking it, and that demoralization which war superinduces on the human mind.

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Great sacrifices of interest have certainly been made by our nation under the difficulties latterly forced upon us by transatlantic powers. But every candid and reflecting mind must agree with you, that while these were temporary and bloodless, they were calculated to avoid permanent subjection to foreign law and tribute, relinquishment of independent rights, and the burthens, the havoc, and desolations of war. For years we have been looking as spectators on our brethren in Europe, afflicted by all those evils which necessarily follow an abandonment of the moral rules which bind men and nations together. Connected with them in friendship and commerce, we have happily so far kept aloof from their calamitous conflicts, by a steady observance of justice towards all, by much forbearance and multiplied sacrifices. At length, however, all regard to the rights of others having been thrown aside, the belligerent powers have beset the highway of commercial intercourse with edicts which, taken together, expose our commerce and mariners, under almost every destination, a prey to their fleets and armies. Each party, indeed, would admit our commerce with themselves, with the view of associating us in their war against the other. But we have wished war with neither. It is much to be desired that war may be avoided, if circumstances will admit. Nor in the present maniac state of Europe, should I estimate the point of honor by the ordinary scale. I believe we shall on the contrary, have credit with the world, for having made the avoidance of being engaged in the present unexampled war, our first object. The cannibals of Europe are going to eating one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake. Whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world. This pugnacious humor of mankind seems to be the law of his nature, one of the obstacles to too great multiplication provided in the mechanism of the Universe. The cocks of the henyard kill one another up. Bears, bulls, rams, do the same. And the horse, in his wild state, kills all the young males, until worn down with age and war, some vigorous youth kills him, and takes to himself the harem of females. I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail. Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is their interest to go to war. Were the money which it has cost to gain, at the close of a long war, a little town, or a little territory, the right to cut wood here, or to catch fish there, expended in improving what they already possess, in making roads, opening rivers, building ports, improving the arts, and finding employment for their idle poor, it would render them much stronger, much wealthier and happier. This I hope will be our wisdom. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world. To cherish and maintain the rights and liberties of our citizens, and to ward from them the burthens, the miseries, and the crimes of war, by a just and friendly conduct toward all nations, were among the most obvious and important duties of those to whom the management of their public interests have been confided; and happy shall we be if a conduct guided by these views on our part, shall secure to us a reciprocation of peace and justice from other nations.
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The desire to preserve our country from the calamities and ravages of war, by cultivating a disposition, and pursuing a conduct, conciliatory and friendly to all nations, has been sincerely entertained and faithfully followed. The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many. I opposed the right of the President to declare anything future on the question, Shall there or shall there not be war? Considering that Congress alone is constitutionally invested with the power of changing our condition from peace to war, I have thought it my duty to await their authority for using force in any degree which could be avoided. I have barely instructed the officers stationed in the neighborhood of the aggressions to protect our citizens from violence, to patrol within the borders actually delivered to us, and not to go out of them but when necessary to repel an inroad or to rescue a citizen or his property. As the Executive cannot decide the question of war on the affirmative side, neither ought it to do so on the negative side, by preventing the competent body from deliberating on the question. Congress [must] be called [if there] is a justifiable cause of war; and as the Executive cannot decide the question of war on the affirmative side, neither ought it to do so on the negative side by preventing the competent body from deliberating on the question. We have already given in example one effectual check to the Dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body, from those who are to spend to those who are to pay. The making reprisal on a nation is a very serious thing. Remonstrance and refusal of satisfaction ought to precede; and when reprisal follows, it is considered as an act of war, and never yet failed to produce it in the case of a nation able to make war; besides, if the case were important enough to require reprisal, and ripe for that step, Congress must be called on to take it; the right of reprisal being expressly lodged with them by the Constitution, and not with the Executive. The question of war being placed by the Constitution with the Legislature alone, respect to that [makes] it [the Executives] duty to restrain the operations of our militia to those merely defensive; and considerations involving the public satisfaction, and peculiarly my own, require that the decision of that question, whichever way it be, should be pronounced definitely by the Legislature themselves. There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in welldefined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army. Were armies to be raised whenever a speck of war is visible in our horizon, we never should have been without them. Our resources would have been exhausted on dangers which have never happened, instead of being reserved for what is really to take place. Nor is it conceived needful or safe that a standing army should be kept up in time of peace. The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

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God has formed us moral agents that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own. Thomas Jefferson to Miles King, 1814 "Step back, detach, and allow a new perception to break through." I Ching Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1787 This formidable censor of the public functionaries, by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being. Thomas Jefferson to A. Coray, 1823 This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sistersMy children, we should love people not only with words and talk, but by our actions and true caring. 1 John 3:16-18, NCV The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. Pope John XXIII In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved. St. John of the Cross If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. St. John of the Cross

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Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and in him. Perfect love casteth out fear. from Epistle 1 of St. John Wm. Tyndale translated. The first casualty when war comes is truth. Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917 Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. Lyndon B Johnson Pray for the dead, and work like hell for the living. Mother Jones A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. E. Stanley Jones The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Carl Jung

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountaintop, then you shall begin to climb. And when the Earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Should we all confess our sins to one another, we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. Should we all reveal our virtues, we would also laugh for the same cause. Kabir (1440-1518) A teacher of fear cant bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. Youre the one. Byron Katie The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. Reginald Wright Kauffman

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Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time. Sam Keen Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. Helen Keller I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. Helen Keller First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas Kempis It is an unfortunate fact that we secure peace only by preparing for war. John F. Kennedy, American President (1917-1963) Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy, in a speech at the White House, 1962 Compromise does not mean cowardice. John F. Kennedy, American President (1917-1963) If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy, American President (1917-1963) Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. John F. Kennedy, American President (1917-1963)

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. John F. Kennedy, American President (1917-1963) Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. John F. Kennedy, American President (1917-1963) For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we al inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal. John F. Kennedy, Speech at the American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963 War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. John F. Kennedy This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future. Mark Kennedy The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. Frank Kent If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars. Sophie Kerr The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. Ellen Key, 1916 Everything, everything in war is barbaric . . . But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. Ellen Key, 1916

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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes, Jr., quoted in Catholic Digest, June 2000 Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. John Maynard Keynes

My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion. Abdul Ghaffar Khan The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.' Abdul Ghaffar Khan I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it. Abdul Ghaffar Khan There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca. Abdul Ghaffar Khan Todays world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people. Abdul Ghaffar Khan to an interviewer in 1985 If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now. Sister Chn Khng
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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. Nikita S. Khrushchev (1958) Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. (variant) Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Sren Kierkegaard Once you label me you negate me. Sren Kierkegaard People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. Sren Kierkegaard The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) Nobel Peace Laureate The first question which the priest and the Levite asked [on the Jericho Road] was: If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I'd like someone to mention the day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King tried to love somebody. I want you to say that day, that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to say that day, that I did try to feed the hungry . . . I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness . . . I want to leave a committed life behind. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963 Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation for such a message is love. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) Nobel Peace Laureate I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 4/4/1967 Beyond Vietnam speech To do peace, you must get up off your apathy. Yolanda King

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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. Anita Koddick Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work. Kathe Kollwitz War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. Karl Kraus (1874-1936) Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. J. Krishnamurti Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. J. Krishnamurti A state of harmony with nature, with all beings of creation, itself leads to our harmony with humans. If we lose our relationship with nature, we lose inevitably our relationship with humans. J. Krishnamurti If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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Once we believe in the inevitability of war, war becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once we are committed to war's instrumentality in pursuit of peace, we begin the Orwellian journey to the semantic netherworld where War IS Peace, where the momentum of war overwhelms hopes for peace. And once we wrap doctrines perpetuating war in the arms of justice, we can easily legitimate the wholesale slaughter of innocents... Our ability to rethink the terms of our existence, to explore the possibility of peace without war, may well determine whether we end war, or war ends us. Dennis Kucinich True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. Milan Kundera You dont need to build a fence to divide you from a friend. Bread in peace is better than cake in war. Good will conquer everything. Get to know new friends, do not forget the old ones. Slovak proverb Karel Kurka Permanent Representative of Czechoslovakia United Nations, 12 June 1959 It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power.... Human rights are a democratic goal and nonviolence is the way to attain it. Aung San Soi Kyi Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart. Richard Lamm (b. 1935) The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. Hugh Latimer Si vis pacem, para pacem If you want peace, prepare for peace. Latin proverb

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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Emma Lazarus, 1883 (base of Statue of Liberty)

How soon we forget.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses. Louis Lecoin, French pacifist leader Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live, & as if you were to die tomorrow. Mother Anna Lee, founder of the Shakers Let us not become the evil that we deplore. Barbara Lee, House of Representatives 9/14/01 What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife, 1864 The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be lived. Van der Leeuwarden Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? Stanislaw Lem A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. John Lennon Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one. John Lennon All we are saying is give peace a chance... John Lennon

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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didnt understand the assignment, and I told them they didnt understand life. John Lennon We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. Aldo Leopold War is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood-feuds, and dueling, an insult to God and humanity...a daily crucifixion of Christ. Muriel Lester Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. James Levin As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: "My God, what have we done?" Capt. Robert Lewis, Enola Gay (1955) Wars occur because people prepare for conflict, rather than for peace. Trygve Lie, (1948) Det er betre a vere herre I eit lite hus enn trael I eit stort. It is better to be a free man in a small house than a slave in a big house. Norwegian proverb Trygve Lie

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When I approached the end of life and I can no longer have dominion over time, then all my hopes and all my dreams are that one little act of mine, some thought, some word will remain to ease anothers pain, to make the world a better, brighter place for those who follow me. Is this my immortality? Perhaps. Evangeline Lindsley 105 years old, 2002 Dayton, Ohio School Teacher Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Abraham Lincoln Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purposeand you allow him to make war at pleasure. Abraham Lincoln The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. Also quoted as, I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Col. William F. Elkins, November 21st, 1864 If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Longfellow Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds. Longfellow
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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. Martin Luther (1483-1546) When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree." Martin Luther (1483-1546) The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel. Martin Luther (1483-1546) The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. Robert Lynd (1879-1949), Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist By doing service, heart and mind are purified -- be convinced of this! To engage in service is a very powerful sadhana (spiritual discipline); do not become impatient. Rather serve your people with the utmost calm and have a kind word for everyone. Sri Anandamayee Ma

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"Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do." Dr. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate The environment is very important in the aspects of peace because when we destroy our resources, they become scarce and we fight over that. Dr. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate If we did a better job of managing our resources sustainably, conflicts over them would be reduced. So, protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace. Dr. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. (General) Douglas MacArthur Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. (General) Douglas MacArthur The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. (General) Douglas MacArthur The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. Macaulay We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace? J. Ramsay MacDonald Jaw-jaw is better than war-war. Harold MacMillan

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A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison, letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822 Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. James Madison, Political Observations, 1795 If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present. Mairead Corrigan Maguire Peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization. Maharaji; Address to faculty, students and guests at Harvard University's Sanders Theater (August 2004) If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. Nelson Mandela I have cherished the ideal of a society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity...if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise. Thus shall we live, because we will have created a society which recognizes that all people are born equal, with each entitled in equal measure to life, liberty, prosperity, human rights and good governance. Such a society should never allow again that there should be prisoners of conscience nor that any person's human rights should be violated. Nelson Mandela

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It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. Manitonquat War is a coward's escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann, 1929 Accurst be he that first invented war. Christopher Marlowe (Tamburlaine) If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record that we have ever known. General of the Army George C. Marshall, 1945 If this Nation is to remain great, it must bear in mind now and in the future that war is not the choice of those who wish passionately for peace. It is the choice of those who are willing to resort to violence for political advantage. General of the Army George C. Marshall All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice. Karl Marx The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point is to change it. Karl Marx Hawkeye: "War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse." Father Mulcahy: "Why do you say that, Hawkeye?" Hawkeye: "Simple, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?" Father Mulcahy: "Sinners, I believe." Hawkeye: "Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is full of them." from the TV series M*A*S*H If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace." Senator Spark Matsunaga

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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:3 ...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. Matthew 5:44-45 Soon the childs clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free (being) becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that daywe become seekers. Peter Matthiessen American Writer (b.1927) You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. Gene Mauch War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill? Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'Eau The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace. Colman McCarthy War making doesn't stop war making. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. Colman McCarthy Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. Colman McCarthy Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war, but capacity to prevent it. Anne O'hare McCormick, American Author (1880-1954)

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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. Anne O'Hare McCormick It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. George McGovern I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. George McGovern Let us remember that our interest is in concord not in conflict, and that our real eminence as a nation lies in the victories of peace, not those of war. President William McKinley If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. Peter McWilliams Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. Margaret Mead If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress. Mechtild of Magdeburg Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. Francis Meehan War is specially terrible not because it destroys human beings, who can be destroyed in plenty of other ways, but because it turns human beings into destroyers. Writer and Cultural Historian Louis Menand
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Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. H.L. Mencken Kill a man and you're a murderer, kill many and you're a conquer. Eve Merriam I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?" Eve Merriam Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. The Christian fight for peace is not to be confused with defeatism. Thomas Merton Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other. Thomas Merton So instead of loving what you think is peace, love other (men) and love God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmongers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which is the cause of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed -- but hate these things in yourself, not in another. From "The Root of War is Fear" by Thomas Merton Do not depend on the hope of results...concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. Thomas Merton, Catholic Worker There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern lives are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. Thomas Merton
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Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity. Jane Meyerding No, the Lord has told us what is good. What he requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God. Micah 6:8 Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. Madge Michaels-Cyrus Taught by history, we suspect that by using force to storm the existing Bastilles we shall unwittingly build new ones. Leading Polish dissident Adam Michnik, writing from prison in 1985 If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. Henry Miller Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. John Milton, 1667, Paradise Lost The mind is its own place, And in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. John Milton Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. John Milton, in To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652 Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. Ludwig von Mises Peace and not war is the father of all things. Ludwig von Mises

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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Ludwig von Mises Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. Ludwig von Mises The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. Ludwig von Mises The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. Ludwig von Mises The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. Ludwig von Mises The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. Ludwig von Mises The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. Ludwig von Mises To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. Ludwig von Mises War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. Ludwig von Mises War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. Ludwig von Mises War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Ludwig von Mises

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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. Ludwig von Mises Shall I not tell you what is better than prayers and fasting and giving charity to the poor. It is making peace between one another as enmity and malice destroy all virtues. Mohammad (PBUH) The best Islam is to give salam (peace) to everyone, whether you know that person or not. Mohammad, al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 11 Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. James Monroe Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering. Sun Myung Moon There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war. Marianne Moore Angry heart -- you have no chance against my prayers. Mary Moreno There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance. Toni Morrison, The Dancing Mind (1996)

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There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. James Morrow, American Author (b.1947) When we tug on a single thing in nature we find it attached to everything else. John Muir A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. Edward R. Murrow There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. A.J. Muste We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. A.J. Muste Exercises and war games erode the basic ethical values contained in the command "thou shalt not kill". We tolerate, in fact, more and more the exact opposite of what both religious creeds and the international law on more humane warfare are endeavoring to instill in us. Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. Alva Myrdal We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE. Alva Myrdal Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight. Mikhail Naim There is one God and He is the enemy of no one. Guru Nanak In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. Jos Narosky
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Mind, ye peoples of the Earth, Enmity is an evil state. Live in friendship, one and all Man can have no kinder fate. Alisher Navoi, Uzbek poet and humanist We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realized the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. Nursultan Nazarbayev Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? Holly Near, American Musician (b.1949) Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. Jawaharlal Nehru The only alternative to co-existence is co-destruction. Jawaharlal Nehru Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated. Howard Nemerov Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. Pablo Neruda, Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias) (1974) Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Friedrich Nietzche We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause. Florence Nightingale, 1856

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Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquility to Earth. Richard M. Nixon Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. Henri Nouwen Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience...Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring. Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950 The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. Henri Nouwen Education is the vaccine for violence. Edward James Olmos Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear. Osho (1931-1990) Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. Ovid The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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We hold these Truths to be Self evident; that all Men are created equal and independent; that from that equal Creation they derive Rights inherent and unalienable; among which are the Preservation of Life, and Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these Ends, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the governed; that whenever, any form of Government, Shall become destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government... --Thomas Paine (1737-1809), original draft of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, July 1776 My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine The world is my country, all mankind is my brethren and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind. Is not the whole earth covered with leather for him whose feet are encased in shoes? From the Panchatantra 2nd century B.C.E. Hindu Tales We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician and philosopher Only the toughest, harshest barbarism of the past, War, remains yet to be vanquished by our innate anti-barbarism. There is a growing insight of its unlawfulness. Jean Paul If you want peace, work for justice. Pope Paul VI Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, underdevelopment and illiteracy. Pope John Paul II Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends on one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face. Pope John Paul II
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We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race. Linus Pauling We are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing to the achievement of the goal of the abolition of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident that we shall succeed in this great task; that the world community will thereby be freed not only from the suffering caused by war but also through the better use of the earth's resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the efforts of mankind, from hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the course of time be enabled to build a world characterized by economic, political, and social justice for all human beings and a culture worthy of man's intelligence. Linus Pauling Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world. William Penn, 1693 When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Peace Pilgrim One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. Peace Pilgrim The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. Peace Pilgrim This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Peace Pilgrim Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. Peace Pilgrim

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As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me. Peace Pilgrim If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Peace Pilgrim Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. Peace Pilgrim Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. Peace Pilgrim The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. Peace Pilgrim The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. Peace Pilgrim There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? Peace Pilgrim This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Peace Pilgrim To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. Peace Pilgrim Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. Peace Pilgrim

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity. Peace Pilgrim We are that which activates the body. Peace Pilgrim When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Peace Pilgrim World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it. Peace Pilgrim You are within God. God is within you. Peace Pilgrim You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them. Peace Pilgrim Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold. Peace Pilgrim Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble. Jaroslav Pelikan A good end sanctify evil means; not must we ever do evil, that good might come of it. We are ready to retaliate, rather than forgive or gain by love and information . . . Force may subdue, but love gains. And one that forgives first wins the laurel. William Penn True godliness does not take men out of this world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. William Penn

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If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members. H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch All we ask, God, is to be safe from the rain, just warm enough in winter to watch the snow with a smile, have enough to eat so that our hunger will not turn us to angry beasts, and sanity enough to make justice that will not kill our love of life. Joseph Pinatauro Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. Pindar All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. Max Planck, Physicist The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. Pope Pius VI

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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973 Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Blessed is the wo/man who finds wisdom, the wo/man who gains understanding, for s/he is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. S/he is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. S/he is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed. Proverbs 3 If you oppress poor people, you insult the God who makes them; but kindness shown to the poor is an act of worship. Proverbs 14:31 As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 Do you want long life and happiness? Strive for peace with all your heart. Psalm 34:12, 14 For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. Pythagoras O mankind! We created you from a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that you may know and honor each other (not that you should despise one another). Indeed the most honorable of you in the sight of God is the most righteous. The Quran Chapter 49, Verse 13 But if the enemy inclines towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace. The Quran 8:61
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Be kind and Allah loves those who are kind. The Quran 2:195 Repel (evil) with what is better. Then will he, between whom and thee was hatred, become as it were thy friend and intimate. And no one will be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self-restraint. The Quran Chapter 41, Verse 34 and 35 O you who believe, stand out firmly for Allah, as witnesses to fair dealing and let not the hatred of others to you make you to swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just, that is next to piety. Be conscious of Allah, for Allah is well-acquainted with all that you do. The Quran 5:8 see also 4:135 and 6:152 Be quick in the race for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Garden (paradise) whose width is that of the heavens and of the earth, prepared for the righteous - Those who spend (freely), whether in prosperity or in adversity, who restrain (their) anger and pardon (all) men - for God loves those who do good. The Quran Chapter 3, Verses 133-134 God does not forbid you to be kind and equitable to those who have neither fought against your faith nor driven you out of your homes. In fact God loves the equitable. The Quran Chapter 60, Verse 8

And what will explain to you what the steep path is? It is the freeing of a (slave) from bondage; or the giving of food in a day of famine to an orphan relative, or to a needy in distress. Then will he be of those who believe, enjoin fortitude and encourage kindness and compassion. The Quran Chapter 90, Verses 12-17 *for those who will say that there are passages in the Quran that support violence I would like to point out that if you look through the Bible you will find violence supported in many places, mostly in the Old Testament. I choose to believe in a loving, compassionate and caring higher consciousness, God, Creator This is what feels true to my heart and essence. If we are truly quiet and listen to the voice within us we know that love is the only way. Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit. Prince Tunku Putra Abdul Rahman (b.1903), Malaysian political leader We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence. Ramakrishna

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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible. A. Philip Randolph (1919) You can no more win a war than win an earthquake. Jeanette Rankin There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. (1929) Jeanette Rankin In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. Herbert Read The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes. Charley Reese A people free to choose will always choose peace. Ronald Reagan U.S. President Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. Ronald Reagan U.S. President Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon A seed in the ground. A flame in the darkness. A hand outstretched. A child in the womb. Hope starts small and overtakes us, stretching the borders of what we have known. Jan L. Richardson "Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas" The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. Hyman G. Rickover

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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at a rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundredth blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. Mary Roberts Rinehart I find war detestable, but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. Romain Rolland (1914) Bless your persecutors; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Have the same attitude toward all. Put away ambitious thoughts and associate with those who are lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation. Never repay injury with injury. See that your conduct is honorable in the eyes of all. If possible, live peacefully with everyone. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves; leave that to God's wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay," says the Lord. But "If your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; by doing this you will heap burning coals upon their heads." Do not be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good. Romans 12:14-21 The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young. Bishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980) Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent revolt of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty. Bishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980) We could all learn a lot from crayons: Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names and all are different colors . . . .but they all have to learn to live in the same box. Andy Rooney

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For 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 When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Eleanor Roosevelt The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt Peace, like charity, begins at home. President Franklin D. Roosevelt More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. President Franklin D. Roosevelt If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. President Franklin D. Roosevelt We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940) The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power. President Franklin D. Roosevelt When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger. President Franklin D. Roosevelt We appeal, as human beings, to human beings. Remember your humanity and forget the rest. Joseph Rotblat

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War is the foulest fiend ever vomited forth from the mouth of hell Rousseau IN EVERY BREATH In every breath if youre the center of your own desires youll lose the grace of the Beloved, but if in every breath you blow away your self claim the ecstasy of love will soon arrive. In every breath if youre the center of your own thoughts the sadness of autumn will fall on you, but if in every breath you strip naked just like a winter the spring of joy will grow from within. All your impatience comes from the push for gain of patience. Let go of the effort and peace will arrive. All your unfulfilled desires are from your greed for gain of fulfillments. Let go of them all and they will be sent as gifts. Fall in love with the agony of love not the ecstasy, then the Beloved will fall in love with you. Rumi Nader Khalili (translation) Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck, 20th Century American writer The entire object of education is to make people not merely do the right thing, but enjoy the right thing not merely industrious, but to love industry not merely learned, but to love knowledge, - not merely pure, but to love purity not merely just, but to hunger and thirst for justice. John Ruskin The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm. Bertrand Russell

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell, attributed One must care about a world one will never see. Bertrand Russell, 20th-century British mathematician and philosopher We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. Bayard Rustin The human race is a single being Created from one jewel If one member is struck All must feel the blow Only someone who cares for the pain of others Can truly be called human Saadi, Persian Poet circa 1200-1291 Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope. Mikhail Saakashvili If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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 Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. Oscar Arias Sanchez
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Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come. Carl Sandburg Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. Carlos Santana When the rich make war, it's the poor that die. Jean-Paul Sartre Peace Crane, I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. Sadako Sasaki, age 12 Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. Friedrich Schiller A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. Johann Christoph Schiller The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." Carl Schurz When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think. Pat Schroeder, American politician and feminist Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher capitalism, in its current form, no longer fits the world around us. We have failed to learn the lessons from the financial crisis of 2009. A global transformation is urgently needed and it must start with reinstating a global sense of social responsibility. Klaus Schwab founder of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 24, 2012

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Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) "Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too." Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Nonviolence, pacifism, that's the greatest thing that I think the human species has to aspire to, because otherwise it's not going to be around. Martin Scorsese Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle, 1854 (disputed, but wonderful no matter who said it) If we don't stop the bomb who will take care of the flowers? Neil J. Seattle, Age 9 The mind is the master over every kind of fortune: itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. Seneca, Roman Statesman and Philosopher Power over life and deathdont be proud of it. Whatever they fear from you, youll be threatened with. Seneca, Roman philosopher and statesman God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the patience to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference. The Serenity Prayer

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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. William Shakespeare Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial Julius Caesar Act 3, scene 1 William Shakespeare If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God. George Bernard Shaw Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it. George Bernard Shaw You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. George Bernard Shaw War is at best barbarismIts glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879 Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war. Shel Silverstein Since we are to be conformed to the image of Christ, how can we then fight our enemies with the sword? ... Spears and swords of iron we leave to those who, alas, consider human blood and swine's blood of well-nigh equal value ... Menno Simons, 1539 A.D
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He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates The big ship is towed by a dug-out. (in conflict) you become ashes if you lose, you become charcoal if you win. Malay proverb Mohamed Sopiee Permanent Mission of the Federation of Malaya to the United Nations, 4 August 1958 Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice. Baruch Spinoza He that is strong hates no man, is angry with no man, envies no man, is indignant with no man, despises no man. Baruch Spinoza War is not the normal state of the human family in its higher development, but merely a feature of barbarism lasting on through the transition of the race, from the savage to the scholar. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "History of Woman Suffrage" 1881 Peace to thee, my spiritual brother! Saint Stephen Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings. Cat Stevens The very first lesson that I learnt from the Quran was the message of unity and peace. Cat Stevens A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson Making peace is harder than making war. Adlai Stevenson

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. Adlai E. Stevenson Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. Adlai E. Stevenson Praying for peace is like praying for a weedless garden. Nothing will happen until you get your hands dirty. John K. Stoner, co-founder of Every Church A Peace Church Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you." Sufi Teaching Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. Charles Sumner In beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in experts mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki Fear less, hope more, Whine less, breathe more, Talk less, say more, Hate less, love more, And all good things are yours. Swedish proverb It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. Publius Syrus

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A civilization must be judged and assessed, not by the level of power it has reached, but by how it develops and expresses a love of humanity through its laws and institutions. The first and last criterion one must submit to is: Is it recognizable, and to what level, that man is more a spirit than a machine? Rabindranath Tagore The world in its essence is the reconciliation of opposite forces. These forces, like the right hand and left hand of the creator, act in perfect harmony, and yet in opposite directions. Rabindranath Tagore It is quite evident that our world is useful and that it provides for our needs, but our connection does not end there. We are united to it by a connection much larger and more truthful than that of necessity. Our soul is drawn to it; our love of life is in reality a desire in us to seek our connection with this universe and this connection is love. Rabindranath Tagore In his essence, man is not a slave to himself, nor to the world; he is a lover. His freedom and accomplishments are in love, which is another name for perfect understanding. In this ability to understand, in this impregnation of everything that is, He is one with the Spirit that penetrates everything, and also the breath of the soul. Rabindranath Tagore We encounter this surprising paradox between us: the Whole appears as a multitude, the appearance is opposite to the truth, and yet it is inseparably linked. Rabindranath Tagore When the life of a man, freed from all distractions, finds its unity in the spirit, the knowledge of the infinite comes to him immediately and naturally, like light from a flame. Rabindranath Tagore Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is a disguise for ignorance. Rabindranath Tagore To save one life, it is as if you had saved the world. Talmud

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It is not your obligation to complete your work, but you are not at liberty to quit. Talmud Whoever finds beauty in weapons Delights in the slaughter of men; And who delights in slaughter Cannot content himself with peace. So slaughters must be mourned And conquest celebrated with a funeral. Tao Te Ching There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting. Alan John Percivale Taylor No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. Alan John Percivale Taylor No war is inevitable until it breaks out. Alan John Percivale Taylor The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. Alan John Percivale Taylor Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by your thinking. Susan L. Taylor If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa All works of love are works of peace. Mother Teresa I don't do great things. I do small things with great love. Mother Teresa

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The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty - it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. Mother Teresa Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. Mother Teresa Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. Mother Teresa It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Mother Teresa Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. Mother Teresa When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. St. Therese of Lisieux I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. Studs Terkel

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Unity comes before Peace. He who is afraid knows no peace. Whenever there is love there is peace. (Burma) U Thant, Permanent Representative of Burma to the United Nations 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 Peace... is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. Dorothy Thompson What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Henry David Thoreau, Walden Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. Henry David Thoreau Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

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Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the welldisposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.... In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. Howard Thurman The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler If you want to be happy, be. Aleksey K. Tolstoy Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence? Leo Tolstoy The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.... Leo Tolstoy All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what the do not want to do. Leo Tolstoy Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. Leo Tolstoy

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Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. Leo Tolstoy I have always been opposed even to the thought of fighting a "preventative war", There is nothing more foolish than to think that war can be stopped by war. You don't "prevent" anything by war except peace. Harry S. Truman(1955-56) I would rather have peace in the world than be President. Harry S. Truman Our goal must not be peace in our time but peace for all time. Harry S. Truman Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute; the faster they hurry, the slower they go. Seng-Tsan If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Bishop Desmond Tutu If you see injustice and say nothing, you have taken the side of the oppressor. Bishop Desmond Tutu Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. Bishop Desmond Tutu The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. Mark Twain, "The War Prayer" The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. - "Chronicle of Young Satan" Mark Twain If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart. Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live. Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C

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He who knows he has enough is rich. Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. Morihei Ueshiba One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. Morihei Ueshiba To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. Morihei Ueshiba When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. Morihei Ueshiba Every day is a good day. Ummon All human beings are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms . Universal Declaration of Human Rights Watch well over your seed-things and children Speak wisely to them, our new children! Henceforth they shall be your first speakers And the peacemaking shields of your people. Author Unknown
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The soul is the home of all living beings; and from the soul all living beings derive their strength. There is nothing in the universe that does not come from the soul. The soul dwells within all that exists. You, my son, are the soul. Chandogya Upanishad

All existence is but a flaw in the perfection of non-existence Paul Valery also quoted Existence is no more than a flaw in the perfection of non-existence. World peace is us....We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us. Kathleen Vande Kieft Respectful dialogue, in the interest of searching for more complete truth, is considerably more productive than arguing for the purity of position. Gerard Vanderhaar We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. Gerard Vanderhaar The story of the human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation, not aggression. Gerard Vanderhaar Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential. Gerard Vanderhaar We have war because we are not sufficiently heroic for a life which does not need war. Bartolomeo Vanzeiti The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve. Vatican statement to the U.N., 1976

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The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred. Alvaro Uribe Velez The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. Veterans Fast for Life It is only by feeling your love that the poor will forgive you for the gifts of bread. St. Vincent de Paul Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change. Frederick Moore Vinson, Speech at Arlington National Cemetery (Memorial Day, 1945) Until man can accord to others the right of free belief on all subjects, and be willing to believe truth under whatever form it might appear, no universal religion will be manifest to the world. Swami Vivekananda If all were of the same religious opinion, there would be no religion. No sooner does a religion start than it breaks into pieces. The process is for the religion to go on dividing until each man has his own religion, Until each man has thought out his own thoughts and carved out for himself his own religion. Swami Vivekananda Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. Swami Vivekananda Amidst this chaos there is harmony, throughout these discordant sounds there is a note of concord; and he who is prepared to listen to it will catch the tone. Swami Vivekananda The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. Voltaire (1694-1778)b. Francois Marie Arouet. Influential figure of French enlightenment
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire, War Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing the new road. Voltaire (1694-1778) Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet. Alice Walker This is what Jesus taught. He doesn't say the 'peace lovers.' Blessed are the peacemakers. Jim Wallis Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate. Joan Walsh The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third War 90-95 per cent would be civilians. Anarchy in Action, Colin Ward, British Author (b.1924) Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.) Booker T. Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. George Washington (1732-1799) My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. George Washington Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. George Washington The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge with it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts

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If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. Daniel Webster Justice is the great interest of man on earth. Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?" Daniel Webster I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Laureate What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope. Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Laureate The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, its indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, its indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, its indifference Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Laureate There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Laureate No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Laureate Peace is our gift to each other. Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Laureate Mankind must remember that peace is not Gods gift to his creatures; it is our gift to each other. Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Laureate

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. H.G. Wells If we don't end war, war will end us. H.G. Wells, Things to Come, 1935 The world is in a race between education and catastrophe. H.G. Wells

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. John Wesley When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. John Wesley Vietnam was the first war ever fought any without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. William Westmoreland, American General (b.1914) Peace without justice is tyranny. William Allen White (1868-1944) Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew. John Greenleaf Whittier The dark night is over and dawn has begun. Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun! All speech, flow to music; all hearts, beat as one. John Greenleaf Whittier
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Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. Oscar Wilde As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde May the children of tomorrow be as shocked to learn of war as the children of today are shocked by slavery. Linda K. Williams If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury War creates peace like hate creates love. David L. Wilson There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. Woodrow Wilson I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession. Woodrow Wilson There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. Woodrow Wilson One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. Woodrow Wilson (1917) In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world. Walter Wink
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. Orville Wright You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. Lin Yutang Get rid of the self and act from the Self. Zen saying The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno of Citium (335-263 BC) Greek philosopher We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. Howard Zinn 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 placesand there are so manywhere 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. Howard Zinn (from his autobiography You Cant Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times) And if we do act, in however small a way, we dont 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 (from his autobiography You Cant Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times) Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise. Zoroaster

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Two times Europe went to war The third time will be the last Dont give up, hold fast The gentle water breaks the rock. It tears down the strongest walls And even if we are weak and small We want to be like the gentle water The gentle water breaks the rock. Soldiers brandish brand new guns While children cry with hunger pains Big money flows for weaponry Yet the gentle water breaks the rock. Let us celebrate the peace Which shows what life is all about People see how they can live The soft water breaks the rock. song written in the 80's: The gentle water breaks the rock.

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