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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
A crisis is a turning point.
- Anne Lindthorst
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
- Leo Tolstoy
Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.
- Ammon Hennacy
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- Francis of Assisi
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle
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.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
- Gil Bailie
I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.
- Ammon Hennacy
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 cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.