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In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.

- Leonard Berkowitz

Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.

- Jack DuVall

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

- Oscar Arias

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

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

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez

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

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln