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It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

- Manitonquat

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.

- Lanza del Vasto

I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.

- Noam Chomsky

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

I have invented something which...I have been calling "Senesh's Law" -- That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.

- Kenneth Boulding

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton