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Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

We must improve our talk/do ratio.

- Stewart Brand

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.

- Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

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

You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.

- Jeanette Rankin

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, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

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.

- Buckminster Fuller

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh