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The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Alfred Adler

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The ugliest is that man who thinks nothing is worth fighting and dying for and lets men better and braver than himself protect him.

- John Stuart Mill

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

- Indira Gandhi

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

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

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

- Kenneth Boulding