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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
- Vera Brittain
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 Karamchand Gandhi
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr
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
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
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
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
- Norman Cousins
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Peace is the skillful management of conflict.
- Kenneth Boulding
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
- Aristide Briand
Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.