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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- 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
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
- Confucius
I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.
- Mairead Corrigan Maguire
We must improve our talk/do ratio.
- Stewart Brand
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
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
A crisis is a turning point.
- Anne Lindthorst
The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.
- Gerard Vanderhaar
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.