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~WORDS FOR PEACE, INSPIRATION & CONTEMPLATION~
I have always found inspiration in words of peace and compassion. These quotes and
poems I have collected up over a number of years. They span centuries, but the message
remains the same. Peace, forgiveness, goodwill and compassion are perennial wisdoms.
When I need strength, clarity or comfort I reflect on them and know it is good.I hope they provide you with the same benefits.
A human being
PEACE
A dynamic process filled with physical, mental and spiritual well being,
health, vision, imagination, wonder, capacity, growth and nourishment for
all.
Question: Why are we violent, but not illiterate?
Answer: Were taught to read!A student of Colman McCarthy
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The Blind Man
One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of
a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that
read: "I am blind, please help."
A poet was walking by and stopped toobserve. He saw that the blind man had only a few
coins in his hat. He dropped in more coins and,
without asking for permission, took the sign and
rewrote it.
He returned the sign to the blind man and left. That
afternoon the poet returned to the blind man and
noticed that his hat was full of bills and coins!
The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if it
was he who had rewritten his sign and wanted to know
what he had written on it.
The poet responded: "Nothing that was not true. I
just wrote the message a little differently." He
smiled and went on his way.
The new sign read: "Today is Spring and I cannot seeit."
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Sometimes we need to change our strategy. If we always
do what we've always done, we'll always get what we'vealways gotten.
And remember too, sometimes it's not WHAT we say, it's
HOW we say it!!
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LOVE
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you, yield to him.
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you, believe him.
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Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so he is for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the
sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for Gods
sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in
that knowledge become a fragment of lifes heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only loves peace and loves pleasure.
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of loves threshing
floor.
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, butnot all of your tears.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness;
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate loves ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the Beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon
your lips.
Love one another,
but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran (The Prophet)*If you havent treated yourself to The Prophet by Khalil Gibran do so. It is wonderful.
The illusion is that you are a Human Being having some spiritualexperiences.
The reality is that you are a Spiritual Being having some human experiences.Reali ty and I ll usion, St. Germain
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RELIGIONS & PEACE
Better than a thousand hol low words, is one word that br ings peace.--- Buddhism (Buddha)
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but onl y by love; this is the eternal r ul e.--- Buddhism (Buddha)
Holding on to anger is li ke grasping a hot coal wi th the in tent of thr owing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.--- Buddhism (Buddha)
Peace comes from with in . Do not seek i t wi thout.--- Buddhism (Buddha)
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about
the futur e, but to li ve the present moment wisely and earnestly.--- Buddhism (Buddha)
Those who are free of resentful thoughts sur ely f ind peace.--- Buddhism (Buddha)
We are what we think. Al l that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make
the world.--- Buddhism (Buddha)
You wil l not be puni shed for your anger, you wil l be puni shed by your anger.--- Buddhism (Buddha)
Bl essed are the peacemakers for they shal l be called God's chi ldren.--- Christianity
The fru it of the spir it is love, joy and peace.--- Galatians 5:22
There is no fear i n l ove; for perf ect love casteth out fear.--- I John 4:18
Love is patient, l ove is kind,Love does not insist on its own way.Love bears all things, beli eves all things,Hopes all thi ngs, endur es all thi ngs.Love never fai ls.--- I Corinthians 13:4-8
Seek peace, and pursue it.- Psalms 34:14
Now abide, faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest ofthese is Love.--- I Corinthians 13:13
Follow the way of love.--- Corinthians 14:1
The Lord li ves in the heart of every creature.He turns them round and round upon the wheel of Maya.Take refuge utterl y in H im.By his grace you wil l f ind supreme peace,and the state which is beyond all change.--- Hinduism
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While I slam means establ ishment of peace,Muslim means one who establ ishes peace through hi s actions and conduct.--- Islam
The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace.--- Judaism
Al l th ings exist for world peace.--- Kyodan or the Church ofPerfect L iberty, is a Japanese Shinshky (new religiousmovement) founded in 1924
A M uslim is one who sur renders to the wil l of Al lah,and i s an establ isher of peace." I f a man sings of God and hears of H im,and lets the love of God sprout with in him,then all his sorr ows shal l vanish,and in h is mind, God will bestow abiding peace.--- Sikhism
Peace...it comes to our souls when we reali ze our relationship,our openness, with the universe and al l i ts powers,and when we realize that at the center of the un iverse dwellsthe Great Spir it , and that th is center i s reall y everywhere,it is within each of us.--- From The Sacred Pipe, Lakota Sioux Medicine Man
If there is to be peace in the world,
there must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
there must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
there must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
there must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
there must be peace in the heart.
(from Tao Te Ching)
by Lao-Tse
[Circa 500-600 BC]
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QUOTES
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Edward Abbey
Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly
impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the
Light of the World. Show love to all; 'Love is the breath of the Holy Spirit in the heart of
Man'.
Abdu' l-Baha, Pari s Talks p. 30
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are,toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others
to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.
Hafsat Abiola
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice.
Lord Acton
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
Peace is not the absence of war but the unfolding of world-wide processes making for the
nurture of human life.
Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Laureate
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of
us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Laureate
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one
unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Laureate
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people.
John Adams (August 1765)
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In war, truth is the first casualty.Aeschylus
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Al fr ed Adler
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime
perpetrated on the community of man.
Al fr ed Adler
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and
inhuman.
Al fr ed Adler
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
Af ri can Proverb
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents,
the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of
us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the
horror of terror, and of God.
James Agee
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Muhammad Ali
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all
come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
Paula Gunn All en
Whoever knocks persistently ends by entering.
Al i (600-661) Arabian caliph
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the
gun.
Martin Amis
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from
these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
I sabel Al lende
Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by
the love of what we will never see. This is the secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the
creative act be dissolved away in immediate sense experience, and a stubborn commitment
to the future of our grandchildren. Such disciplined love is what has given prophets,
revolutionaries, and saints the courage to die for the future they envisaged. They make
their own bodies the seed of their highest hope.
Ruben Alves, Tomorrows Child
If these feelings of disgust all over the world could be united into common action,
something effective could be done.
Amnesty International, Nobel Peace Laureate
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson
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 meansyou cannot soar as you might otherwise.
Marian Anderson
War is not inevitable. Human conflicts are inevitable but war is not. War is a social
institution. Institutions were created by people; therefore they can be changed.
Michael Andregg, JPST program University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, M innesota, USA
We must walk in balance on the earth
a foot in the spirit and a foot in the physical.
Lynn Andrews, 20th
century Amer ican wr iter and shaman
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and
plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate ---
thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
Maya Angelou
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People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never
forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Maya Angelou
Amazing Peace Maya Angelou
In our joy, we think we hear a whisper.
At first it is too soft. Then only half heard.
We listen carefully as it gathers strength.
We hear a sweetness.
The word is Peace.
It is loud now.
Louder than the explosion of bombs.We tremble at the sound.
We are thrilled by its presence.
It is what we have hungered for.
Not just the absence of war. But true Peace.
A harmony of spirit, and comfort of courtesies.
Security for our beloveds and their beloveds.
We, Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers,
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud.
Peace. We look at each other, then into ourselves,
And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation:
Peace, My Brother.Peace, My Sister.
Peace, My Soul.
There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty
more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is
protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace.
Kof i A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
If through the U.N the world can create a stronger, more just, more benevolent and more
genuine international community across all lines of religion and race, then terrorism will
have failed.
Kof i A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who
are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of
love.
Annamalai Swami
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Peace begins when the hungry are fed.
Anonymous
If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate
a family (nation).AnonymousAf ri can ProverbProbably a Fanti ( Ghana )
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything
on which it is poured.
Anonymous
In the struggle rewards are few. In the fact, I know of only two, loving friends and living
dreams. These rewards are not so few it seems.
Anonymous
All the arms we need are for hugging.
Anonymous
Draft beer; not people.
Anonymous
What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.
Anonymous
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
Anonymous
To those who speak of the need for security I respond:
Let us bomb our enemies with food.
Let us shell them with medicine.
Let us attack them with schools and houses.
And we shall move closer to peace.
Anonymous
God is on everyone's side? And in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money
and large armies.
Jean Anouilh
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social
standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing
to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season
and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and
bear the consequences.
Susan B. Anthony
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.Antoine de Sain t-Exupery
The universe is change;
our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusRoman Emperor
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.Marcus Aurelius AntoninusRoman Emperor
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
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. Butthen neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino
Al -Harb binniddarat hayyinSeen through spectacles, war is easy
Arab ProverbCharles MalikPresident, General Assembly, Uni ted Nations 12/15/1958
Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts.
Arab Proverb
The best answer comes from the man who isn't angry.
Arab Proverb
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Seek education from the cradle to the grave.
Arab Proverb
Trust in Allah, but tether your camel.
Arab Proverb
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that
wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
Hannah Arendt, 20th-centur y German politi cal phil osopher and author
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be
good or evil.
Hannah Arendt, 20th-centur y German politi cal phil osopher and author
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no finaldeadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of
many decisions.
Oscar Ar ias, Former President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate
The great empires, manned by vast armies of soldiers, have all crumbled, but the
community ofhhikkus(Buddhist practitioners) has lasted more than 2500 years. The message seems to be that it is not by protecting and defending yourself that you
survive, but by giving yourself away.
Buddha, Karen Armstrong
[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the
World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.I saac Asimov
After each war there is less democracy to save.
Brooks Atk inson (1951)
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
St. Augustine
People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with
peace.
Satya Sai Baba
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We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is patriotism
above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires
jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler
kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead
our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this
end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both
sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class
against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling
beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.
Lord Baden-Powell
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
Joan Baez
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the
organization of violence.
Joan Baez
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no
longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison
gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.
Joan Baez
The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
Bahaullah
There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for
which the word violence was never used...Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend
it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the
violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment
thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated
righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have evercommitted.
Gil Bailie
It is love that allows us to give up our power to control. It is love that allows us to treat
each person in our organization with respect and dignity. Love sends people around the
world to serve others. Love inspires people to work with greater purpose.Dennis Bakke
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We ought to be resolved beforehand that no provocation, no temptation shall induce us to
resort to the last dreadful alternative of war.
May no young man ever again be faced with the choice between violating his conscience
by cooperating in mass slaughter or those...who can find no better way than to conscript
young men to kill.
Emi ly Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Laureate
Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.
Chri stina Baldwin
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanl ey Baldwin
For those Who Love Me
I live for those who love me,
For those who know me true,
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my coming too;
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
G. Linnaeus Banks
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message
has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with
the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave Barr y
Let us not deceive ourself: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same
name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard
belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the
shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard
up belongs to the poor.
Basil the Great
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If you live alone, whose feet will you wash?
St. Basi l
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace
to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
King Baudouin I , King of Belgium
The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own
uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness.
Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes
the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to
break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own
responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of,
and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
From the Chr istmas Message 2001 of HM Queen Beatri x of the Netherlands
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
Peace can be achieved through nonviolent means.
Carlos Feli pe Ximenes Belo, Nobel Peace Laureate
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie
under the heel of the powers.
Daniel Berri gan
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It
may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one
thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the
better.
Daniel Berri gan
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when
the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded ityourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you
might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.Daniel Berri gan, SJ
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Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course,
continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by
our own cowardice, is partial.
Daniel Berri gan
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 . Bever idge, Br iti sh Economist
If you see God within every man and woman,
then you can never do harm to any man or woman.
If you see God in yourself, then you attain perfection.The Bhagavad Gita
*I always had the feeling I was perfect. Im just having trouble manifesting my perfection.editor
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steve Bi ko
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will
think hard before starting a war.Otto Von Bi smark
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
Otto Von Bi smark
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Willi am Blake
To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm
of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Willi am Blake
Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.Leon Bloy
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Do you know what astonished me most in the world?
The inability of force to create anything.
In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness,
and pride of power, and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to makethese points clear rather than too much.Pacif ist theologian D ietri ch Bonhoeffer hanged by the Nazis in 1945.
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from
force.
David Borenstein
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and
nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept thatmaybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent
people?
Fr ank Borman
Without peace of mind, life is just a shadow of its possibilities.
Jean Borysenko
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every
waking activity.
El ise Boulding
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause
of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.
David Bower
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
John Boyes
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We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom
and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without
conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war
than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to
develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our
executioner.
Armistice Day speech (11 November 1948), published in Omar Bradley's CollectedWri tings, Volume 1(1967)General Omar Bradley
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
GeneralOmar Br adley
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns
are made.
Ar istide Br iand, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize, 1926
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a
revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
Vera Bri ttain, 1964
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone
else; you are the one getting burned.
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Better than a thousand hollow words,
Is one word that brings peace.
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and
compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
He who can control his rising anger as a coachman controls his carriage at full speed, this
man I call a good driver; others merely hold the reins.
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is
peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To
see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each otherand in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can
really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
(Carl) Frederi ck Buechner
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is
always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched
out both to give and receive with gladness.
(Carl) Frederi ck Buechner
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward George Bu lwer-L ytton
Don't believe everything you think.
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There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine
progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, "reason's voice, loud as thevoice of nature, shall have waked the nations".
Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Laureate 1950
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Laureate
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Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war,
must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education,
as well as freedom and human dignity.
Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-1971)
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral
crisis.Edmund Bur ke
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one
international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the
losses in lives.
Major General Smedley Butler USMC
I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjectedmonthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a
regular basis.
Brett Butl er
No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to
our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just.
Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace
being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the
idea of rights.
Judith Butler, I nterview The Believer Magazine - I ssue 2
To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be the last resort,
not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a
massive, unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over fifty percent children is 'in
the highest moral traditions of our country.
U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd
The common people of all nations want peace. In the presence of great impersonal forces
they feel individually helpless to promote it common folk, not statesmen, nor generals,nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women like the few thousand
Quakers and their friends, if they devote themselves to resolute insistence on goodwill in
place of force, even in the face of great disaster past or threatened, can do something to
build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal sacrificial
service. To this ideal humble persons everywhere may contribute.
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When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no
food, they call you a communist.
Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazil ian li beration theologist
God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not
greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to
serve.Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazil ian li beration theologist
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.Cameroonian saying
It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize
that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
Albert Camus
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Al ber t Camus (1913-1960)
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Al ber t Camus (1913-1960)
In contrast to the mystic, the physicist begins his enquiry into the essential nature of
things by studying the material world. Penetrating into ever deeper realms of matter, he
has become aware of the essential unity of all things and events. More than that, he has
learnt that he himself and his consciousness are an integral part of this unity. Thus the
mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm,
the other from the outer world.
Fr itjof CapraThe Tao Of Physics
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human
or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace
among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or
even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.
Rachel Carson
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It would be nave to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or
study of history will automatically resolve the problems However, with faith and
perseverance, complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice
and peace.
Jimmy Carter
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our
children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation
of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life...
Jimmy Carter
The spirit of human brotherhood must under-gird any political or social structure of
peace if it is to last.
Jimmy Carter
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is
giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes
courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
In all of his suffering, as in all of his life and ministry, Jesus refused to defend himself
with force or with violence. He endured violence and cruelty so that God's love might be
fully manifest and the world might be reconciled to the One from whom it had become
estranged. Even at his death, Jesus cried for forgiveness for those who were executioners:
"Father, forgive them"The Chal lenge of Peace U.S. Cathol ic Bishops, 1983
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it.
But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
Ajahn Chah
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According to the philosophy of waging peace, our opponents are not people. Our
opponents are the ignorance and misunderstandings that hold people hostage. Our
opponents are hatred, greed, fear, apathy, oppression, and injustice. To defeat hatred, we
cannot use hatred. We must use love. To defeat ignorance and misunderstandings, we
cannot use guns and bombs. We must use reason, truth, and understanding.
Waging peace is a philosophy and strategy that sees every so-called "enemy" as a friend
being held hostage by ignorance, misunderstandings, hatred, greed, fear, etc. According to
the philosophy of waging peace, all human beings are on the same team, but some of our
comrades have been captured by ignorance and hatred, and we must try to free them. I
explain this in more detail in my book, "The End of War: How Waging Peace Can Save
Humanity, Our Planet, and Our Future."http://paulkchappell.com/other-writings/
Paul Chappell
Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall
harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world,
we will have discovered fire.
Teil hard de Chardin
The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.Teil hard de Chardin
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Cesar Chavez
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything
humiliating.Cesar Chavez
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the
oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.
Cesar Chavez
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez
You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in
that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his
environment as you do it.
Cesar Chavez
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Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe
that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that
away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than
violence.
Cesar Chavez
Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to
meet that demand then you can do most things.
Cesar Chavez
Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-
violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in
bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly
committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but
because it is an effective and very powerful way.
Cesar Chavez
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-
violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
Cesar Chavez
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the
oppressor, it justifies it.
Cesar Chavez
We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced
that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you
have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own
struggle.
Cesar Chavez
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then
will our world know the blessings of peace.
Wil li am Ellery Channing also attri buted to Jimmy Hendr ix
Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.
G.K. Chesterton
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton
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Then all that has divided us will merge
And then compassion will be wedded to power
And then softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind
And then both men and women will be gentle
And then both women and men will be strong
And then no person will be subject to another's will
And then all will be rich and free and varied
And then the greed of some will give way to the needs of many
And then all will share equally in the earth's abundance
And then all will care for the sick and the weak and the old
And then all will nourish the young
And then all will cherish life's creatures
And then all will live in harmony with each other and with the earth
And everywhere will be called Eden, once again.
Judy Chicago
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.Chinese Proverb
There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.
Chinese Proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Proverb
Women hold up half the sky.Chinese Proverb
The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux
of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or
not we are really committed to the poor.
Joan Chittester, OSB
Sports play a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're
designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
Noam Chomsky
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as
disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Chr istie
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity,
they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchil l
The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
Winston Churchil l
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down
and listen.
Winston Churchil l
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks
on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The
statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer
the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Winston Churchil l
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.Marcus Tul li us Cicero
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert
as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?
Gregory Clark
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I
consider chaos a gift.
Septima Poinsette Clark
The spiral of responding to violence with violence is like a whirlpool in a river. As the
water pours in, it whirls faster and faster.
The only way to stop the whirlpool is to place a solid rock in the middle. Peacemakers are
the called to be rocks in the whirlpool of violence.
Susan Classen and Vernard E ll er
War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.
Major General Car l von Clausewitz, 1832
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The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants
and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who
embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and
those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are
determined to clench their fists.
President Wil li am J. Clinton, 1997
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
Red Cloud
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of
commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign
offices.
Richard Cobden
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, nonemore than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed
with a clear conscience.Alexander Cockburn , I ri sh-born American Journali st (b.1941)
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain
violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
Rev. Wil li am Sloan Coffi n, Jr.
A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.Rev. Wil li am Sloan Coffi n, Jr.
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
Wilki e Colli ns
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.
Char les Caleb Colton 1780-1832)English cleri c
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
If we have harmony in our beliefs and actions, there will be love in our homes and if there
is love in our homes, there will be order in the nation and if there is order in the nation,
there will be peace on earth.Confucius
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Let your words be sincere and truthful and your actions honorable and careful; with such
conduct you can get along even among barbarian peoples.Confucius
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.Joseph Conr ad
I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and
living as a human family.
Mairead Corr igan Maguire
The ability to be insulted without retaliation creates peace in all sorts of human
interactions.
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Norman Cousins
We will not have peace by afterthought.
Norman Cousins
A church which cannot take a firm stand against war is a church which does not deserve
to be believed.
Harvey Cox, Amer ican Baptist theologian at Harvard Divinity School
The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But,
in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without
sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food we eat....So
the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not
really freedom, its indulgence.
Peter Coyote
When the hungry can feed themselves, peace happens.
F lorence Crago
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one
another.
Luciano de Crescenzo
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No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their
fathers, fathers bury their sons.
Croesus, King of Lydia, in Herodotus' The Persian Wars
Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, andhas always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly
shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
Javier Perez de Cuell ar
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you
everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and
never stop fighting.
e.e.cummings
He who has a good neighbors will sell his house for more.
A good well gives water in drought, indeed, a good friend you know when you are in need.
Even a good war suffers from want of bread.
War is easy to go in but hard to get out of.
War is not a wet nurse.
Power without sense gets spoiled.
He who blows into fire gets sparkles and smoke in his eyes.
Czech proverbsKarel Kur ka
Permanent Representative of CzechoslovakiaUnited Nations, 12 June 1959
Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our struggle must remain
nonviolent and free of hatred.
14th Dalai Lama
Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and
where individuals and nations are free.
14th Dalai Lama
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for
freedom.
14th Dalai Lama
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis,
maintain their neutrality.
Dante
When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature When you
can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.
Huachu Daoren
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity
to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more
common than physical bravery.
Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Dar row
In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place
in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe
resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within
you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of
us.. "Namaste."
Ram Dass
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of
others. We are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and thetime will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look
on the murder of men.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
Dorothy Day
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community
living.
Dorothy Day
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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
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
Dorothy Day
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of
anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
Dorothy Day
Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay
one brick at at time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action
in the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will
vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and
multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.Dorothy Day
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence,
nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy,
and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated
hope, and put the prophets to death.
Char les DeGaul le
Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us,
individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.
Dave Dell inger
Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these
things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is
helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will
find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and
not simply opinions.
Barbara Deming
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? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in
noncooperation?
Barbara Deming
What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a
right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that
includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our
lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.
Barbara Deming
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be
meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent
actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their
consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation.
It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have
created.
Barbara Deming
Abba Poeman said about Abba Prior that every single day he made a fresh beginning.Desert Fathers and Mothers
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is
undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and
wholly relaxed.
I ndra Devi
Awaken the mind without fixing it anywhere.
Diamond Sutra
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts; it is
made up of our thoughts.
Dhammapada
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A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise
or blame.
Dhammapada
Love the fellow of the resurrection, scooping up the dust and chanting "Live!"
Emi ly Dickinson
Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin D israeli
I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.
Phil Donahue
No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am
involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls forthee.
John Donne
At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain
whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide, "I will combat it with
human love." If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the
whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force; it is the strongest of all things and there is
nothing like it.
Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Kar amazov
The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system
but our own lives.
James Douglass
A happy person is not a person in a set of circumstances, but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
Hugh DownsAmerican Journali st
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
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Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks
of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral
and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
John Foster Dull es, War or Peace 1950.
Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.
Jack DuVall
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other
alternatives.
Abba Eban
What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago,
and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all
meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
Meister Eckhart
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can
hear it in others.
Marian Wri ght Edelman (b.1939)American wri ter
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
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its
potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and
death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas Edison
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the
name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.... Thesolution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have
become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the
labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the
same measure as I have received.
Albert EinsteinQuoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has
been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This
disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how
violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds
than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is
nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein
We must inoculate our children against militarism, by educating them in the spirit ofpacifism.... Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate
children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
Albert Einstein
Concern for man himself and his fate must always be the chief interest of all technical
endeavors.... In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to
mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make
ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my
heart.
Albert Einstein
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies
opportunity.
Albert Einstein
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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
A human being is part of the whole called by us "universe," a part limited in time andspace. We experience ourselves, our thoughts, and feelings as something separate from the
rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all of its beauty...
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military
service.Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein
We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing
situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those that are really
determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and
mis-guided. And those that have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are avery powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their
murderous ends.
Albert Einstein
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will
end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein
Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the mostrevolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the
universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.
For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except
through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists
recognise our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of
atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only
hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the
future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both thenatural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all
things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
Albert Einstein
I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than
our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days
government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its
futility, its stupidity.
General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the council of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his
comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you
are trying to defend from without.
General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the
binding force of mutual respect and love.
General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final
sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true
sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
General & President Dwight D. Ei senhower,From a speech before the American Society ofNewspaper Edi tors, Apr il 16, 1953
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of,
but our severity.
George Eliot
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ell is
We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a
unit to fight against itself is suicide.
Havelock Ell is
Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death.
Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.
Lucy Ellman
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of
people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its
powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and
that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
Black Elk (1863-1950)
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which
is within the souls of men.
Black Elk
War is on its last legs; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization
over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only, How
soon!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always
someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you
to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end
requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes
brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through
understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world's biggest arms suppliers are the U.S., U.K., Russia, France and China...
They are also the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
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Sweet is war to those who do not know it.
Desiderius Er asmusDutch scholar
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Desiderius Er asmusDutch scholar
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.Desiderius Er asmusDutch scholar
As we work for justice and peace, we plant seeds of hope. Our hope is reflected in our
faith. As we plant the seed, we see the whole tree in the seed. We not only see it, we feel it
growing. We not only feel it,we taste its fruit.
Ricardo Esquivia, JustaPaz, Colombia Mennoni te Church
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We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world.
And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we
must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show
great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know
that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
Adol fo Perez Esquivel
When the great lord passes the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts.
Ethi opian proverb (example of passive resistance?)
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And
there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
Louis Farrakhan
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing
to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or
how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash, your picture in the paper nor money
in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.
Will iam Faulkner
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Franoi s Fnelon
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed
largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and
civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham F lexner, Ameri can Author (1866-1959)
The taller the bamboo grows the lower it bends.
F il ipino proverbCarlos P. Romulo, President4th General Assembly, Uni ted Nations 10/24/1949
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's
professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
Oscar W. F ir kins
The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.
Martin H . Fischer
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make
our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham F lexner
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.Henry Fosdick, Amer ican Teacher
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite
is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of
reconciling our differences.
M. P. Follett
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
Char les de Foucauld
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg
in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in
your heart.
St. Fr ancis of Assisi
Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop thereis not enough. We have a higher mission--to be of service to them whenever they require
it... If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of
compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
St. Fr ancis of Assisi
Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.
St. Francis de Sales
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think...peace and tranquility will return again.
Anne Frank
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by
some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak
all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin F ranklin
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We daily make great improvements in natural philosophy there is one I wish to see in
moral philosophy; the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle
their disputes without first cutting one anothers throats. When will human reason be
sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this.
Benjamin F ranklin
from The War System of the Commonwealth of Nations an Address Before the American Peace Society, at itsAnn iversary in Boston, May 28, 1849 by Hon. Char les Sumner.
Al so quoted as:I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have
reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my
opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin F ranklin
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and
evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish
misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin F ranklin
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to
complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Benjamin F ranklin
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he
sees.
Benjamin F ranklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.
Benjamin F ranklin
You can bomb the world to pieces
you cant bomb it into peace.
Michael Franti
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed
only by small children and large nations.
Thomas F ri edman
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I t i s mei sizzen net to dwaen.(Saying it is not enough.)
Fri sian proverb, Fri sian is aGermanicgroup
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other
lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
Bill F rist
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary,
quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself
to others.
Erich Fr omm
The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to
year, so long as our civilization shall last.
J. William Fulbright
Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do,
Something you are, And something you give away.
Robert F ulghum
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely,
scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity
around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully
nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.Buckminster Ful ler
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Buckminster Ful lerChange comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from
one generation to the next.
J. K. Galbraith
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
I ndira Gandhi , 1966
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and
ignorance.
I ndira Gandhi , 1966
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent
blood.
Gandhi , Non-violence in Peace and War , 1948
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always
won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the
end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS!(From the movie, but no attribution to Gandhi can be found)
Mohandas Gandhi
Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mohandas Gandhi
We must be the change we wish to see.Mohandas GandhiParaphrased from a longer paragraph. We have never been able to find that wording, although we use it also,
in M.K.Gandhi's works of 98 VOLs. This is the paragraph and the source:
We but mir ror the worl d. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the worl d of our body. I fwe could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, sodoes the attitude of the worl d change towards him. Thi s is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thi ng it i s andthe source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
VOL 13, Ch 153, General Knowledge About Health; Page 241, Printed in the Indian Opinion on 9/8/1913
From The Collected Works of M.K.Gandhi; published by The Publications Division, New Delhi, India."
(response from Arun Gandhis office on inquiry about quote)
Buddha taught us to defy appearances and trust in the final triumph of Truth and Love. .
. He taught us how to do it, because he lived what he taught. The best propaganda is not
pamphleteering, but for each one of us to try to live the life we would have the world to
live.
Mohandas GandhiGandhi speaking at the Buddha Jayanti on May 18, 1924
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But
we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. The
Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact
proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each.
Mohandas Gandhi
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it
must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mohandas Gandhi
Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, try the following
experiment: Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have ever seen and
ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be for any use to him or to her . . . Then
you will find your doubts and your self melting away.
Mohandas Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the
evil it does is permanent.
Mohandas Gandhi
I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average ability. I have not the
shadow of doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make
the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
Mohandas Gandhi
I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
Mohandas Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it
becomes a miracle.
MohandasGandhi
Nonviolence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.MohandasGandhi
Religion is but one tree with many branches.
If you look only upon the branches, then you are tempted to say that there are many
religions;
But if you look at the whole tree, you understand that there is but one religion.
MohandasGandhi
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms.
It requires change of heart.
MohandasGandhi
Economic equality is the master key to nonviolent independence.MohandasGandhi
I must confess that I do not draw a sharp line or any distinction between economics and
ethics.
MohandasGandhi
Strength doesnt come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.
MohandasGandhi
The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs, but not every mans greed.
MohandasGandhi
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. ... If
[our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like
locusts.
MohandasGandhi
This little globe of ours is not a toy of yesterday.
MohandasGandhi
We may utilize the gifts of Nature just as we choose, but in Her books, the debits are
always equal to the credits.
MohandasGandhi
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
MohandasGandhi
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system
never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person
will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
MohandasGandhi
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Our country is the worldour countrymen are mankind.
also quoted as My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not
equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
That which is not just is not law.
Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten
the resurrection of the dead.Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever
may be the sex or complexion.
Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)
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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will
give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Will iam L loyd Garr isonAmeri can aboliti onist (18051879)