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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

- Walt Kelly

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

- Rwandan Proverb

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

- Pablo Casals

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery