"We must improve our talk/do ratio."
Stewart Brand |
A crisis is a turning point.
Anne Lindthorst |
A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir |
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
William Ralph Inge |
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides |
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
Dhammapada |
Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
John F. Kennedy |
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.
Helen Keller |
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.
Oscar Wilde |
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 |
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
Lynn Johnston |
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
Albert Einstein |
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 2:4 |
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
Anonymous |
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 |
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson |
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela |
Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.
Mikhail Naim |
Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.
Ammon Hennacy |
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake |
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of
trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller |
Compromise does not mean cowardice.
John F. Kennedy |
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
Max Lucado |
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill |
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing |
Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.
Kenneth Boulding |
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.
Hamilton Mabie |
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
Booker T. Washington |
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela |
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 |
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Everybodys talking at me, I can't here a word they're saying: Only the echos of my mind.
Midnight Cowboy Theme Song |
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Anonymous |
Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?
Barbara Deming |
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain |
God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the patience to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The Serenity Prayer |
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein |
Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.
Kenneth Boulding |
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love
harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Milan Kundera |
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
J. Krishnamurti |
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius |
Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.
Mark Twain |
I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.
Ammon Hennacy |
I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.
Noam Chomsky |
I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
Mohandas Gandhi |
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -
That myth is more potent than history,
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -
That hope always triumphs over experience -
That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
Robert Fulghum |
I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire |
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln |
I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.
Gandhi |
I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.
Stephen Grellett |
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
Malcolm X |
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
I have invented something which . . . I have been calling "Senesh's Law" - That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.
Kenneth Boulding |
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin |
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein |
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.
Martin Luther King Jr. |
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Martin Luther King Jr. |
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Weisel |
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy |
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 |
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez |
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.
Louis Lecoin, French pacifist leader |
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy |
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Longfellow |
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.
Chinese Proverb |
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu |
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
Martin Luther King Jr. |
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela |
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Koddick |
If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.
Fred Menger |
If you want peace, work for justice.
Pope Paul VI |
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela |
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan |
In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
Buddha |
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
St. Augustine |
In the case of highly complex realities . . .ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.
Kenneth Boulding |
Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson |
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. |
It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.
Bernard Haring |
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.
Manitonquat |
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler |
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 |
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin |
It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.
Thomas Jefferson |
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus |
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.
Kenneth Boulding |
Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.
H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar |
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela |
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw |
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller |
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare |
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy |
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
John Foster Dulles |
Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.
Jane Meyerding |
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
Leo Tolstoy |
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony |
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein |
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
Albert Einstein |
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead |
No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne |
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
Marian Anderson |
No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
Croesus |
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
Mohandas K. Gandhi |
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 |
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 |
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.
Mahatma Gandhi |
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi |
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie |
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of
today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the
American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and
live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
Martin Luther King |
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein |
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington |
Peace begins when the hungry are fed.
Anonymous |
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein |
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton |
Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.
Gerard Vanderhaar |
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 |
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 |
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Arias |
Peace is the skillful management of conflict.
Kenneth Boulding |
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
Thomas Aquinas |
Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
Indira Gandhi |
People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.
Theodore Roszak |
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol |
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Mark Twain |
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
Heinz Pagels |
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for
the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller |
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller |
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Coretta Scott King |
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 |
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg |
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau |
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
Charles de Foucauld |
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd |
The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.
Kenneth Boulding |
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.
Hermann Hagedorn |
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr. |
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
Frank Kent |
The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.
Dr. Leonard Berkowitz |
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
Hildegarde Goss-Mayr |
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
Cesar Chavez |
The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.
James Douglass |
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar |
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell |
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams |
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela |
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle |
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante |
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 |
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey |
The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.
Kenneth Boulding |
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France |
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
Barbara Deming |
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals |
The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.
Kenneth Boulding |
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Macaulay |
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Steven King |
The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
Winston Churchill |
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steve Biko |
The only final good is the quality of human life.
Kenneth Boulding |
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
Vera Brittain, 1964 |
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
Aristide Briand |
The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
Gil Bailie |
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.
Joan Baez |
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill |
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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 |
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein |
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt |
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Albert Einstein |
The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
Veterans Fast for Life |
The story of 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 trouble of half-truths is the other half.
Kenneth Boulding |
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 very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain |
There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.
Chinese Proverb |
There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.
George Mitchell. |
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez |
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
Elise Boulding |
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
A.J. Muste |
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis |
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein |
Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.
Jack DuVall |
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
Abraham Lincoln |
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make
violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy |
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius |
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume |
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
African Proverb |
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 |
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
John Boyes |
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
Cesar Chavez |
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell |
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann |
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Norman Cousins |
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
Karl Kraus |
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny.
Charles DeGaulle |
We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.
Cesar Chavez |
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 |
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Luciano de Crescenzo |
We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.
Gerard Vanderhaar |
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the
world.
Helen Keller |
We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.
David Bower |
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 |
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Walt Kelly |
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Gladstone |
We must be the change we wish to see.
Mahatma Gandhi |
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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 will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic
words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the
good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau |
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen C. Barrett |
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Pat Schroeder |
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela |
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
St. Therese of Lisieux |
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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.
Archbishop Helder Camara |
Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln |
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann |
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
Doug Horton |
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
St. Francis of Assisi |
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln |
Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
Malcolm X |
World peace is us....We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.
Kathleen Vande Kieft |
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
Lord Chesterfield |
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X |
You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.
Jeanette Rankin |
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is
running inside you.
Rwandan Proverb |
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi |
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein |
