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

- Ammon Hennacy

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

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

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

- Sancho Panza

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

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

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

- Colleen C. Barrett

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.