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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.
- Gerard Vanderhaar
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
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
- Lord Chesterfield
There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots
- Sancho Panza
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
- Norman Cousins
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
- Cesar Chavez
Empathy is the biggest negotiation tool. I must try to understand where the other person's coming from to make points for my side.
- Lee Ducat
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
- Plato
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.
- James Douglass
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.