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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

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

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

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing

The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

- Gil Bailie

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

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

- Malcolm X

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower