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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

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

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

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

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

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.

- Desmond Tutu

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

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir

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