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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

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

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

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

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.

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

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

- Hamilton Mabie

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Havelock Ellis

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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