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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

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 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

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

- Manitonquat