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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

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

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Augustine of Hippo

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.

- Ammon Hennacy

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

- Jeanette Rankin

Empathy is the biggest negotiation tool. I must try to understand where the other person's coming from to make points for my side.

- Lee Ducat