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The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Ammon Hennacy

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

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

- Ammon Hennacy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

- Hannah Arendt

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde