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The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.

- Kenneth Boulding

Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.

- Kenneth Boulding

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

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

- Jeanette Rankin

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr