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Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

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

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Steve Biko

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.

- Jane Meyerding

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

- George Washington