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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

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 pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

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.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin