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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
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- Francis of Assisi
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
- General Omar Bradley
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.
- Helder Camara
Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.
- Jack DuVall
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
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
We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.
- Malcolm X
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
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
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only final good is the quality of human life.
- Kenneth Boulding
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
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.