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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

- African Proverb

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Vera Brittain