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The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.

- Kenneth Boulding

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny.

- Charles DeGaulle

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Anita Koddick

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

- Pablo Casals

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

- Heinz Pagels

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

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 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.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide