"In the name of peace
They waged the wars
ain't they got no shame?"
Nikki Giovanni
The Great Pax Whitie
"An eye for eye only ends up
making the whole world blind. "
Mahatma Gandhi
"...true patriotism means staying true
to the core committments of democracy.
There is nothing unpatriotic, we contend,
about arguing for peace."
Robert W. Jensen
Citizens of the Empire: Thoughts on Patriotism, Dissent, and Hope
"What good is a house,
if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
"One must care about a world one will never see.
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg
"It is easier to fight for one's principles
than to live up to them."
Alfred Adler
"Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God."
Jesus - Matthew 5:9
"Human security . . . is a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an
ethnic violence that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced. Human security is not a concern with weapon. It is a concern with human dignity."
Mahbub ul Haq, UN Development Program
"And the harvest of righteousness
is won in peace by those who make peace."
James 3:18
"Peace begins when the hungry are fed."
Unattributed
"Change comes not
from men and women changing their minds,
but from the change from one generation to the next."
J. K. Galbraith
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
St. Francis of Assisi
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it
that in the process he does not become a monster.
And when you look into an abyss,
the abyss also looks into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Only when there are many people
who are pools of peace, silence, understanding,
will war disappear."
Osho
"If you want peace, work for justice."
Pope Paul VI
"When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person
who can live at peace with others."
Peace Pilgrim
Do you want long life and happiness?
Strive for peace with all your heart."
Psalm 34:12,14
When the rich make war, it's the poor that die."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"God grant me the courage to change the things I can,
the patience to accept the things I can't,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
The Serenity Prayer
"The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
"The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .
When leaders act contrary to conscience,
we must act contrary to leaders."
Veterans Fast for Life
"It is only by feeling your love
that the poor will forgive you for the gifts of bread."
St. Vincent de Paul
"Taking the first footstep with a good thought,
the second with a good word,
and the third with a good deed,
I entered paradise."
Zoroaster
"That's all nonviolence is - organized love."
Joan Baez
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
that maybe this is really one world
and why the hell can't we learn to live together
like decent people?"
Frank Borman
"We do not inherit the earth from our fathers.
We borrow it from our children."
David Bower
"In separateness lies the world's great misery;
in compassion lies the world's true strength."
Buddha
"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
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