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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

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

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

- Indira Gandhi

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand 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

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

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

The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Milan Kundera