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Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.

- Ammon Hennacy

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

- Kenneth Boulding

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

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

- Nelson Mandela

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.