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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- John F. Kennedy

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

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

- Frank Kent

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

- James Douglass

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn