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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

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

- Indira Gandhi

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

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

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

- Jack DuVall

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

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