"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask:
"Mother, what was war?"
Eve Merriam
"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
"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 are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved
that we could not better achieve without it."
Havelock Ellis
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi
"Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I am part and parcel of the whole
and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity."
Mohandas Gandhi
"It is easier to lead men to combat,
stirring up their passion,
than to restrain them and direct them
toward the patient labors of peace."
Andre Gide
"The gloom of the world is but a shadow.
Behind it, yet within reach, is joy.
There is radiance and glory in the darkness,
could we but see, and to see, we have only to look.
I beseech you to look."
From a letter written by Fra Giovanni, 1513
"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."
Gladstone
"When we treat man as he is,
we make him worse than he is;
when we treat him as if he already were
what he potentially could be,
we make him what he should be."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If I can't dance
I don't want to be part of your revolution."
Emma Goldman
"Peace is a gift,
It is a gift we give to ourselves,
And then to each other."
Richard Goode,
Founder "2 Billion Voices for Peace" in Australia
"The real miracle is not to walk
either on water
or in thin air,
but to walk on earth."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Being a pacifist between wars
is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals."
Ammon Hennacy
"I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war."
Ammon Hennacy
"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."
Irish Proverb
"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more."
Isaiah 2:4
"The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them."
Isaiah 11:6
"In the twilight of life,
God will not judge us on our earthly possessions
and human success,
but rather on how much we have loved."
St. John of the Cross
"Our future on this planet,
exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation,
depends on one single factor:
humanity must make a moral about-face."
Pope John Paul II
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
Martin Luther King, Jr
"What a cruel thing is war:
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world;
to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world."
Robert E. Lee,
in a letter to his wife, 1864
"The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .
When leaders act contrary to conscience,
we must act contrary to leaders."
Veteran's Fast for Life
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
Abraham Lincoln
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in each life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
Longfellow
"Would that even today
you knew the things that make for peace."
Luke 19:42
"Peace is more important than all justice;
and peace was not made for the sake of justice,
but justice for the sake of peace."
Martin Luther
"When asked what he would do
if he knew the world would end tomorrow,
Martin Luther
said, "I would plant a tree."
Martin Luther
"Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:3
"Poetry is an act of peace.
Peace goes into the making of a poet
as flour goes into the
making of bread."
Pablo Neruda,
Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias)
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius
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