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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

You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.

- Jeanette Rankin

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

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

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

- Helen Keller

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.

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

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

- Carl Sandburg

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes