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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

- Thomas Aquinas

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

- W.H. Beveridge