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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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.

- Jack DuVall

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

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

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

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

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

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