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The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

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.

- Helder Camara

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

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...come to conversion.

- Lanza del Vasto

The point of nonviolence is to build...a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink...a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

- Joan Baez

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower