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The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.
- Hermann Hagedorn
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann
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
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Thomas Merton
When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
- William E. Gladstone
The only final good is the quality of human life.
- Kenneth Boulding
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
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
- Gersonides
In the case of highly complex realities...ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.
- Kenneth Boulding
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.