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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

- Indira Gandhi

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Gersonides

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

- Gerard Vanderhaar

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.