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For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

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

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

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

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler