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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

- Heinz Pagels

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.

- George Mitchell

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

- Cesar Chavez

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

- Hannah Arendt