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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

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

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

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

- Karl Kraus

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

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

The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding