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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

- Heinz Pagels

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

I have invented something which...I have been calling "Senesh's Law" -- That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.

- Kenneth Boulding

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis